1st KOSB CEMETERIES & MEMORIALS

Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

Photo credit - Mike Reid

Reichswald Forest War Cemetery was created after the Second World War when burials were brought in from all over western Germany and is the largest Commonwealth cemetery in the country. Some of those members of the land forces buried there died in the advance through Reichswald Forest in February 1945.

LOCATION

Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

DIRECTIONS

Coordinates: 51.74065, 6.08242

Description courtesy of FindaGrave.com

AT REST HERE

16 men of the 1st Battalion rest here

Grave Marker	RANK	First Name	Surname	AGE	Date of Death	Photographs

RANK	First Name	Surname	AGE	Date of Death
Private	ROY	SEARLE	19	Tuesday, February 27, 1945
Private	HERBERT	THOMAS	19	Tuesday, February 27, 1945
Private	WILLIAM BAILLIE SMITH	McFADYEN	19	Tuesday, February 27, 1945
Lance Corporal	WILLIAM LIDDLE	SHANKS	26	Tuesday, February 27, 1945
Private	DANIEL	STEELE	19	Tuesday, February 27, 1945
Private	JOHN	THOMPSON	19	Wednesday, February 28, 1945
Lance Corporal	ROBERT ALEXANDER	BELL	26	Friday, March 02, 1945
Serjeant	DAVID SAMUEL	PHILLIPS	28	Friday, March 02, 1945
Private	WILLIAM PATRICK	O'BRIEN	18	Saturday, March 03, 1945
Private	CHARLES WILLIAM	ANSELL	19	Saturday, March 03, 1945
Private	WILLIAM ALFRED	YATES	18	Monday, March 19, 1945
Private	JAMES	FULTON	18	Tuesday, March 20, 1945
Private	PERCY FREDERICK	WOODWARD	29	Friday, March 23, 1945
Private	JOHN JAMES	McNALLY	23	Wednesday, May 02, 1945
Corporal	WILLIAM	CHELLEY	22	Tuesday, June 19, 1945
Corporal	HENRY	RICHARDSON	24	Friday, July 13, 1945

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

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