The Becklingen War Cemetery is a military cemetery located in the state of Lower Saxony in north Germany on the Lüneburg Heath. It was built by the Commonwealth...
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of Becklingen. There was a significant increase in numbers after the Second World War which was mainly due to the influx of refugees. Becklingen belongs...
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Sidney Cornell (category British Army personnel killed in World War II)
the other members of B Coy who were killed. He is now buried at Becklingen War Cemetery overlooking Luneberg Heath, Germany. The 2021 video game Call of...
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Ian Oswald Liddell (category British Army personnel killed in World War II)
going through his head and then into Liddell. He is buried in Becklingen War Cemetery, Soltau, Germany. His Victoria Cross is displayed at The Guards...
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James Campbell Clouston (category Burials at Becklingen War Cemetery)
Despatches for his part in the Dunkirk operation. Clouston is buried in Becklingen War Cemetery, Lower Saxony, Germany. Clouston was portrayed by William Hope...
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Montmartre, Saskatchewan (section World War I)
Joseph Perron was killed on October 4, 1944, and is buried at Becklingen War Cemetery near Soltau, Germany. Perron Lake southeast of Fontaine Lake is...
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Main Cemetery), with 4.05 km2 largest cemetery on Earth. Becklingen War Cemetery (CWGC) Norden Balve, for Russian soldiers Worms, Jewish Cemetery in Worms...
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Edward Colquhoun Charlton (category British World War II prisoners of war)
Irish Guards, Guards Armoured Division, British Army during the Second World War. On 21 April 1945 Guardsman Charlton was a co-driver of one tank of a troop...
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22nd Dragoons, R.A.C. died in the Second World War in April 1945 and was buried in Becklingen War Cemetery. Martin-Leake published several papers as well...
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Philip Hepworth (category Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
France. The CWGC cemeteries he designed included the Berlin 1939–1945 War Cemetery, Becklingen War Cemetery, Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, and Groesbeek...
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John Poston (British Army officer) (category Burials at Becklingen War Cemetery)
Heath. He was 25 years at the time of death and was buried at Becklingen War Cemetery which overlooks Luneburg Heath where, on 4 May 1945, Field-Marshal...
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He died on active service on 8 April 1945 and is buried in the Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany. Music Web International Grove's Dictionary of Music and...
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Robin Chapel Robin Chapel Thistle Foundation A history of the Tudsbury's country estate, Champfleurie Robin Tudsbery's grave in Becklingen War Cemetery...
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troops. The last wolf in the Lüneburg Heath was seen and shot east of Becklingen on 13 January 1872 in the forest of Becklinger Holz, which, today, is...
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