The text on the memorial is:
"Remember September 1944, Airborne West-Arnhem,
17 September 1987, Unveilled by Major-General R.E. Urquhart C.B. D.S.O."
Every year there is an Airborne commemoration on the square on Nassaustraat in Lombok Arnhem. For more information: airbornearnhemwest.nl. This site also features an extensive story about the 1987 unveiling by General Urquhart.
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Every year on Friday afternoon in the weekend of the commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem, a commemoration is held at the September 1944 memorial in West-Arnhem (Lombok). This memorial was unveiled at the time by General Urquhart and it is located in the part of Arnhem where on the second day of the Battle of Arnhem the reinforcements for the 2nd battalion of Lt. Col Frost at the bridge, were blocked by the German defences.
During the first days of the Battle of Arnhem there was heavy fighting in Arnhem-West. The units intended to reinforce the bridge were stopped here. Every year on the Friday afternoon during the memorial weekend in September, there is a ceremony at the monument that General Urquhart himself unveiled. An impression of Friday 17 September 2021: