| Valkenswaard War Cemetery |
| Holland |
Pictures courtesy of Andy Blenkley
Grave of Private H. E. G. Giles within the cemetery, his real name was Selig but realising his name sounded Germanic he changed it to Giles
| Valkenswaard is located 9 kilometres
from the Dutch-Belgian frontier on the main road from Eindhoven to Hasselt
in Belgium. The cemetery is 4 kilometres south of Valkenswaard town centre.
From the town centre, visitors should follow signs for Hasselt (N69), and
the cemetery lies on the right hand side of the road.
Valkenswaard was the first village to be liberated on the main line of the British advance into Holland in September 1944. The cemetery, which lies in a pinewood, contains over 220 graves, almost all of them are those of men who fell in the fighting in the woods around Valkenswaard during that month. All the men buried here belonged to the forces of the United Kingdom. No. of Identified Casualties: 216 |
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