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Dutch War Graves Old General Cemetery Leersum

Old General Cemetery in Leersum contains 11 Dutch War Graves in a collective grave, all were soldiers who were killed in May 1940 when protecting the retrieving Dutch troops from the Grebbe-line.

On another location on the cemetery is also the grave of a female resistance fighter, this is the grave of the Red Cross woman Jeanne Hermance Pauw van Wieldrecht.

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Source

  • Text: Fedor de Vries & TracesOfWar.nl
  • Photos: Arjan Vrieze