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List updated Jan. 18, 2007

Country Total = 57

2 names on 1 memorial; 55 graves in 34 cemeteries

Completed = 54 (or 94.73%)

Locality Cemetery
SA War Dead #
SA serving in Non-SA units War Dead #
Rhodesia War Dead (includes Non-Rhodesia Units) #
Total
Status - Complete, Underway, Part Done
Volunteer
Friesland Ameland (Nes) General Cemetery
0
1
1
2
Complete
Rene Metz
Utrecht Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery
0
1
1
2
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Noord-Holland Amsterdam New Eastern Cemetery
0
2
1
3
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Gelderland Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery
0
2
1
3
Part Done (2 of 3) - Missing R D C Peele
Doeke Oostra
Noord-Brabant Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery
1
0
2
3
Complete
Doeke Oostra / Eric Reid / Peter Bennett
Overijssel Borne (Bornerbroek) Roman Catholic Churchyard
0
0
1
1
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Noord-Holland Castricum Protestant Churchyard
0
0
1
1
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Gelderland Doornspijk General Cemetery
0
1
0
1
.
.
Noord-Brabant Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery
1
1
0
2
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Overijssel Enschede Eastern General Cemetery
1
0
0
1
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Gelderland Epe General Cemetery
0
0
3
3
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Noord-Brabant Grave Roman Catholic Cemetery
0
0
1
1
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Gelderland Groesbeek Memorial
2
0
0
2
Complete
Doeke Oostra / Gerrie Franken
Groningen Gronningen (Esserveld) General Cemetery
0
0
1
1
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Overijssel Hardenburg (Lutten) General Cemetery
0
1
0
1
.
.
Gelderland Harderwijk General Cemetery
1
0
0
1
Complete
Richard Heus
Noord-Brabant Heesch Roman Catholic Cemetery
0
1
0
1
Complete (No Overview)
Doeke Oostra
Zuid-Holland Hook of Holland General Cemetery
0
2
0
2
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Limburg Hunsel Roman Catholic Churchyard
0
1
0
1
Complete
Peter Bennett
Gelderland Jonkerbos War Cemetery
0
1
2
3
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Groningen Leek (Tolbert) Protestant Cemetery
0
1
0
1
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Overijssel Lonneker Roman Catholic Churchyard
0
0
1
1
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Limburg Nederweert War Cemetery
1
0
0
1
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Zuid-Holland Noordwijk General Cemetery
5
0
0
5
Complete (No Overview)
Christiaan Van Beek
Zuid-Holland Oudewater Protestant Cemetery
0
0
1
1
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Overijssel Raalte General Cemetery
0
0
1
1
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Friesland Smallingerland (Opeinde) Protestant Cemetery
0
1
1
2
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Noord-Holland Texel (Den Burg) Cemetery
0
1
2
3
Complete
Doeke Oostra / Laurens Franken
Zuid-Holland The Hague (Westduin) General Cemetery
0
1
0
1
Complete (No Overview)
Christiaan van Beek
Noord-Brabant Uden War Cemetery
0
1
0
1
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Groningen Veendam General Cemetery
0
1
0
1
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Noord-Brabant Werkendam Protestant Cemetery
1
0
0
1
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Gelderland Winterswijk Cemetery
0
0
1
1
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Friesland Wonseradeel (Makkum) Protestant Churchyard
0
0
1
1
Complete
Doeke Oostra
Overijssel Zwollerkerspel (Begklooster) General Cemetery
0
0
1
1
Complete
Doeke Oostra

 

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY - Gelderland

Arnhem is in the eastern Netherlands. Oosterbeek lies 7 kilometres west of Arnhem on the road to Wageningen. From the Utrechtseweg, turn on to the Stationsweg heading for Oosterbeek Station. At the railway station, turn right on to Van Limburg Stirumweg. The entrance to the cemetery is a short distance along this road opposite the town cemetery.


Name: PEELE, RICHARD DE COURCY
Initials: R D C
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.
Unit Text: 11th Bn.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 22/09/1944
Service No: 314180
Additional information: Son of Charles Richard de Courcy Peele, and of Evelyn Margaret Peele, of Chiswick Park, London. Head boy of Rugby School, 1941-1942; Scholar of Trinity College, Oxford.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 23. A. 7.

DOORNSPIJK GENERAL CEMETERY - Gelderland

Doornspijk is a small village 25 kilometres south-west of Zwolle, astride the Zwolle-Amersfoort road. It is 4 kilometres inland from the Ijsselmeer. The cemetery is about 1 kilometre north of the village, on the western side of the road to Zwolle. The British plot is on the eastern side of the cemetery.

GRUNDY, Flight Sergeant (Air Gnr.), STANLEY, D F M, 626664. 101 Sqdn. Royal Air Force. 9th April 1943. Age 23. Son of Fred and Stella Grundy, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Coll. Grave 2-5

HARDENBERG (LUTTEN) GENERAL CEMETERY - Overijssel

Hardenberg is a town 38 kilometres north-east of Zwolle, on the road to Coevorden. Lutten is a village administered by Hardenberg, about 6 kilometres to the north-west on the Gramsbergen to Zwolle road. The cemetery is 180 metres north of the Protestant church, which stands on the eastern side of the village on the Lutten-Gramsbergen road. The graves are immediately south of the entrance.

Of South Africa, As per Doeke Oostra

Name: MORRISON, DUNCAN
Initials: D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant (Pilot)
Regiment: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 10 Sqdn.
Date of Death: 06/07/1941
Service No: 779002
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Row A. Grave 2.



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