Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery | |
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission | |
Used for those deceased 1944–1945 | |
Established | 1945 |
Location | 51°59′35″N 05°50′54″E / 51.99306°N 5.84833°E near Oosterbeek, Arnhem, Netherlands. |
Total burials | 1770 |
Unknowns | 244 |
Commemorated | 1691 |
Burials by nation | |
United Kingdom: 1410 Poland: 73 Canada: 32 Netherlands: 6 Australia: 4 New Zealand: 4 | |
Burials by war | |
Statistics source: Battlefields WWII Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
The Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, more commonly known as the Airborne Cemetery, is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Oosterbeek, near Arnhem, the Netherlands. It was established in 1945 and is home to 1,764 graves from the Second World War besides four later non-war graves and there are special memorials of two personnel buried elsewhere. Most of the men buried in the cemetery were Allied servicemen killed in the Battle of Arnhem, an Allied attempt to cross the Rhine in 1944, or in the liberation of the city the following year. Men killed in these battles are still discovered in the surrounding area even in the 21st century, and so the number of people interred in the cemetery continues to grow.