Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery

Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The Airborne Cemetery
Used for those deceased 1944–1945
Established1945
Location51°59′35″N 05°50′54″E / 51.99306°N 5.84833°E / 51.99306; 5.84833
near 
Oosterbeek, Arnhem, Netherlands.
Total burials1770
Unknowns
244
Commemorated1691
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.