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STRIJEN PROTESTANT CEMETERY

Zuid-Holland

The Netherlands

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 51.74502, Longitude: 4.54948

Location Information

Strijen is a village and commune 29 kilometres south-south-east of Rotterdam, and 13 kilometres south-west of Dordrecht. The cemetery is on the north-western outskirts of the village, about 50 metres west of the road to Maasdan. In the south-western part are the graves of 11 airmen, 6 from the United Kingdom and 5 from Canada.

​Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Strijen Protestant Churchyard
Strijen Protestant Churchyard
Strijen Protestant Churchyard
Strijen Protestant Churchyard
Strijen Protestant Churchyard
Strijen Protestant Churchyard
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1113021 Sergeant
Ernest Bainbridge
82 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
12th August 1941, aged 28.

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Son of Anthony and Jane Bainbridge; husband of Elsie Bainbridge, of Barnoldswick, Lancashire.

His headstone bears the inscription "I'll Wall Beside You"


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J/25920 Flight Sergeant
Peter William Bickford
115 (R. A. F.) Squadron, 
Royal Canadian Air Force
17th September 1944.




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1622660 Flight Sergeant
Uriah Bernard Butters
115 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
17th September 1944, aged 21.


Son of William Bernard and Emily Horton Butters, of Hull.

His headstone bears the inscription "He Died, But His Memory Will Live"




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69469 Pilot Officer
Hugh Maxwell Clark
82 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
12th August 1941, aged 24.


Son of Douglas Edward and Dorothy Clark, of Westwell, Ashford, Kent.

​His headstone bears the inscription "Death Be Not Proud"



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J/90321 Pilot Officer
Douglas Dawson
115 Squadron, 
Royal Canadian Air Force
17th September 1944.




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189628 Pilot Officer
Peter Lawrence Dooley
115 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Died between 16th and 17th September 1944, aged 19.

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Son of Albert and Frances Sybil Wass Dooley, of Stoneleigh, Epsom, Surrey.

His headstone bears the inscription "No Day Dawns No Night Returns But We Remember Him"



​Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Strijen Protestant Churchyard
Strijen Protestant Churchyard
Strijen Protestant Churchyard
Strijen Protestant Churchyard
Strijen Protestant Churchyard
Strijen Protestant Churchyard
Strijen Protestant Churchyard
Strijen Protestant Churchyard
Strijen Protestant Churchyard
Strijen Protestant Churchyard
Strijen Protestant Churchyard
Strijen Protestant Churchyard
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J/90719 Pilot Officer
Donald George Flood
115 Squadron, 
Royal Canadian Air Force
17th September 1944.




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152254 Flying Officer
Robert Hawksley Hanney
80 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
18th September 1944, aged 19.


Son of Charles Percival and Dora Grace Hanney, of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

His headstone bears the inscription "His Dauntless Spirit Was The Living Breath Of Freedom, Chivalry And Truth"

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J/28771 Flying Officer
Arnold Ney Johnston
115 Squadron, 
Royal Canadian Air Force
17th September 1944.




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67674 Pilot Officer
Graham Cooper Rolland
82 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
12th August 1941, aged 18.

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Son of William Rolland, M.D., and Phyllis Houghton Rolland, of Bromley Cross, Lancashire.

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J/25351 Flying Officer
Wilfred George Scanlan
115 Squadron, 
Royal Canadian Air Force
17th September 1944.




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