Commonwealth War Graves Oostduinkerke

Oostduinkerke Communal Cemetery contains a plot of 180 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 31 of them unidentified.

Most of those Commonwealth servicemen buried at Oostduinkerke Communal Cemetery died in the heavy fighting along the Newport-Veurne-Dunkirk Canal, while covering the retreat of the British Expeditionary Force to Dunkirk in May 1940.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck (1, 2, 3), Johnny Raes (4, 5)

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