British War Cemetery Mook

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British War Cemetery Mook

  • Cemetery
  • Groesbeekseweg 23, 6585 KE Mook, Pays-Bas

In the British Military Cemetery in Mook, 322 soldiers are buried. Many of those lying here were killed in the Betuwe region (September/October 1944), and in Germany (February 1945). Nationalities of those interred here: Great Britain (297), Poland (11), Canada (10), Australia (3), and New Zealand (1).

In the cemetery stands a ‘Cross of Sacrifice’, with a bronze sword, bearing the text: ‘MOOK WAR CEMETERY 1939 – 1945’. The cross symbolises the soldiers who died in the Netherlands during the Second World War.

British War Cemetery Mook

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