TULL EN 'T WAAL PROTESTANT CEMETERY
Utrecht
The Netherlands
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 52.002, Longitude: 5.13312
Location Information
Tull en 't Waal is 12 kilometres south of Utrecht and 55 kilometres east-north-east of Rotterdam. This small cemetery lies on the south side of the Protestant church, which is in the centre of the village. In the south-eastern corner is the joint grave of 2 British soldiers.
Tull en 't Waal is 12 kilometres south of Utrecht and 55 kilometres east-north-east of Rotterdam. This small cemetery lies on the south side of the Protestant church, which is in the centre of the village. In the south-eastern corner is the joint grave of 2 British soldiers.
Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
812185 Staff Sergeant
Alfred Bell
2nd Wing, The Glider Pilot Regiment, A.A.C.
Died between 25th September 1944 and 26th September 1944, aged 32.
Son of Richard Boag Bell and Margaret Jane Bell; husband of Mona Bell, of Selly Oak, Birmingham.
Drowned during Operation Market Garden / Berlin, 25-26 September 1944, his body was recovered from the river Lek, near Tull en 't Waal 25 February 1945.
Alfred Bell
2nd Wing, The Glider Pilot Regiment, A.A.C.
Died between 25th September 1944 and 26th September 1944, aged 32.
Son of Richard Boag Bell and Margaret Jane Bell; husband of Mona Bell, of Selly Oak, Birmingham.
Drowned during Operation Market Garden / Berlin, 25-26 September 1944, his body was recovered from the river Lek, near Tull en 't Waal 25 February 1945.
Other Burial Details
6098743 Private Thomas Lawrence Beckett, 3rd Bn. The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C., died 26th September 1944, aged 23.
Son of Thomas and Nellie Beckett, of Walworth, London. His headstone bears the inscription "Never Forgotten, Never!"
6098743 Private Thomas Lawrence Beckett, 3rd Bn. The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C., died 26th September 1944, aged 23.
Son of Thomas and Nellie Beckett, of Walworth, London. His headstone bears the inscription "Never Forgotten, Never!"
