Ronald Edmond Balfour (category British Army personnel killed in World War II)
(Cleves), seeking out artworks to be protected from war damage. He is buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery. He bequeathed his personal library of 8,000 books...
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Olive Snell (category 20th-century war artists)
DAVID EBENEZER". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 29 September 2019. "Kleef (D) - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery - - graf 856431". Online Begraafplaatsen...
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Henry Eric Maudslay (category Royal Air Force personnel killed in World War II)
Düsseldorf North Cemetery before being reburied at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery on 3 October 1946. There he rests in the care of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission...
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Tom Rennie (category British Army generals of World War II)
fire. He left behind a widow and two children. He is buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery. Loretto Roll of Honour Archived 28 March 2012 at the Wayback...
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George Holden (RAF officer) (category Royal Air Force personnel killed in World War II)
He is buried in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery in Germany. "Casualty Details | CWGC". "Holden, George Walton". Traces of War. Retrieved 17 August...
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Sidney Adams (category British Army personnel killed in World War II)
Landing Light Regiment, Royal Artillery. He is buried at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery. "Sidney Adams". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 March 2023. "First-Class...
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Michael Maw (category Royal Air Force pilots of World War II)
buried at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery. McCrery, Nigel (2011). The Coming Storm: Test and First-Class Cricketers Killed in World War Two. Vol. 2nd...
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Philip Hepworth (category Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
(Kiel), Rheinberg War Cemetery and Reichswald Forest War Cemetery (Klever Reichswald). Hepworth planned the layout of his cemeteries only after intensive...
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James Stokes (category British Army personnel killed in World War II)
King's Shropshire Light Infantry, British Army during the Second World War. He was killed in action on 1 March 1945, in Kervenheim, Rhineland, Germany...
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Ostfriesland (36 cemeteries of the Polish 1st Armoured Division) Perl Prenzlau Ravensbrück Reichswalde-Kleve (63 airmen and 8 paras) Reichswald Forest Reutlingen...
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battlefields, were re-interred here (except for one who is buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery). General Crerar, who commanded Canadian land forces in Europe...
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The aircrews of RAF Bomber Command during World War II operated a fleet of bomber aircraft carried strategic bombing operations from September 1939 to...
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Wilf Shaw (category British Army personnel killed in World War II)
20 February 1945. He is buried in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery near Kleve in Germany, his name is on the War Memorial in Cantley, Doncaster. Doncaster...
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Bruce Dowding (category World War II prisoners of war held by Germany)
interred in an unmarked grave in Dortmund cemetery. His remains were later moved to the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery near Kleve. On 29 August 1946, a supplement...
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Groesbeek (section World War II)
Groesbeek valley, a large valley between the Nijmeegse heuvelrug and Reichswald. The Groesbeek valley was carved out by glaciers during the Saale glacial...
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Seaforth Highlanders (category Regiments of the British Army in World War II)
Best, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Meijel, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Moyland, Rhine, Uelzen, Artlenberg, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45...
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53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
Siegfried Line to take part in Operation Veritable (the Battle of the Reichswald Forest) in February 1945 where the division, supported by Churchill tanks...
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Liberation Route Europe (category Aftermath of World War II)
International Place Cemeteries Halbe Forest Cemetery Hürtgen War Cemetery Vossenack German Cemetery Reichswald Forest British War Cemetery—Kleve Audiospots:...
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Donald Callander (category British Army personnel of World War II)
Second World War. Pen and Sword. pp. chapter 38. ISBN 978-1526702128. Stolpi. "VERITABLE 1945: 51st Highland Division Reichswald Forest - Major Donald...
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Harry Crerar (category Burials at Beechwood Cemetery (Ottawa))
officer to ever hold that rank in the field. For the Battle of the Reichswald Forest in early 1945, codenamed Operation Veritable, the First Canadian Army...
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Nuremberg (category World War II sites in Germany)
Franconia. The city is surrounded on three sides by the Nürnberger Reichswald [de], a large forest, and in the north lies Knoblauchsland [de] (garlic land), an...
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City of London Rifles (section Boer War)
Brigade supported VIII Corps during Operation Veritable in the Klever Reichswald. Once VIII Corps had secured Venlo, 123 LAA Rgt was deployed there to...
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Nuremberg Reichswald (forest), near Tennenlohe. The invasion of troops by the 7th US Army on 16 April 1945 meant not only the end of World War II for Erlangen...
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Frank Watkins (pilot) (category New Zealand World War II pilots)
crash remains in the target area and now lie together in the Reichswald Forest Cemetery. Watkins was 20 years old. In Carter's letter to Rivett-Carnac...
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43rd (Wessex) Reconnaissance Regiment (category Regiments of the British Army in World War II)
the Reichswald during Operation Veritable (February 1945). The division crossed the Rhine in March 1945 and its last significant engagement of the war was...
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