top of page

1st KOSB CEMETERIES & MEMORIALS

Groesbeek, Gelderland, Netherlands

GROESBEEK MEMORIAL

1st KOSB in Normandy site logo

Awaiting photo

The Groesbeek Memorial stands within Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, about 10 km south-east of Nijmegen. It records by name more than 1,000 Commonwealth soldiers who died in the north-west Europe campaign and have no known grave. They died between late August 1944 and the end of the war in Europe. The memorial and the surrounding cemetery were designed by Philip Hepworth. Most of the cemetery's burials are Canadians who fell in the Battle of the Rhineland in February and March 1945.

LOCATION

Groesbeek, Gelderland, Netherlands

DIRECTIONS

Coordinates: 51.79829, 5.93219

Description courtesy of CWGC

AT REST HERE

5 men of the 1st Battalion named on this memorial

Grave Marker
RANK
First Name
Surname
AGE
Date of Death
Photographs
Grave Marker
RANK
First Name
Surname
AGE
Date of Death
Photo
Corporal
ROBERT GEORGE
ROBERTSON
20
Sunday, October 22, 1944
Private
NORMAN HENRY
DELVES
22
Sunday, October 22, 1944
Private
GEORGE
THOMPSON
22
Sunday, October 22, 1944
Private
WILLIAM JOHN
CLARK
28
Sunday, October 22, 1944
Corporal
GEORGE DORWARD
PENMAN
26
Friday, June 01, 1945

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

bottom of page