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WEERT (MOLENPOORT) ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY

Limburg

Netherlands

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 51.25443, Longitude: 5.70167

Location Information

Weert is a town on the main road from Roermond to Eindhoven, 16 kilometres west-north-west of Roermond. The Molenpoort cemetery is on the west side of the town, west of the main road to Eindhoven and 300 metres south of the bridge over the Zuidwillemsvaart canal. Cross the canal and turn into Molenpoort, and the cemetery is along here on the left. The Commonwealth war graves are located to the front left hand side of the cemetery.


Historical Information

Weert is a town on the main road from Roermond to Eindhoven, 10 miles west-north-west of Roermond. The Molenpoort cemetery is on the west side of the town, 150 yards west of the main road to Eindhoven and 250 yards south of the bridge over the Zuidwillemsvaart canal. In a prominent position near the entrance to the cemetery are the graves of 3 British airmen.

Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Weert (Molenpoort) Roman Catholic Cemetery
Weert (Molenpoort) Roman Catholic Cemetery
Weert (Molenpoort) Roman Catholic Cemetery
Weert (Molenpoort) Roman Catholic Cemetery
Weert (Molenpoort) Roman Catholic Cemetery
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159102 Flying Officer 
William Thomas Grew
Air Gunner in
 78 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
23rd September 1944, aged 22. 

Son of Thomas George C. and Ethel Winifred Grew, of Chelmsford, Essex; husband of Maureen Grew.

​His headstone bears the inscription "They Grow Not Old"

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161665 Flying Officer 
John Stewart Richardson Swanson
Pilot in 78 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 23rd September 1944, aged 22. 

Son of John Richardson Swanson and Isabella Moon Swanson; husband of Elaine Swanson, of Monifieth, Angus.

​His headstone bears the inscription 
"Greater Love Hath No Man Than This That A Man Lay Down His Life For His Friends"





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Other Burial Details

2208436 Sergeant Alistair Campbell, Wireless Operator in 78 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 23rd September 1944, aged 20. Son of William and Jessie Campbell, of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire.
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