Dutch War Graves Old Churchyard Horst

This cemetery, now closed, contains a number of graves of Dutch victims of World War II.

In a collective grave lie the mortal remains one of a total of 35 victims killed in a bombing raid on 12 October 1944. During the heavy fighting around Overloon and Venray, the Allies frequently bombed railway lines and road junctions to frustrate German supplies. Horst was one such junction and eight Canadian Hawker Typhoons dropped their bombs on the village that day. Because of the chaos prevailing at the time, the victims were buried without coffins in a collective grave. Some of the victims were later reburied elsewhere.

The cemetery also contains the grave monuments of Willy Cuppen and Pieter Brijers. They died during the Labour Deployment in Germany and were later reburied in Loenen.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Hans Tasma
• - Massagraf | Landschap Horst aan de Maas