| Mook War Cemetery |
| Limburg, Netherlands |
Pictures courtesy of Conrad Freeling
| Mook is a village on the main road
from Nijmegen to Venlo and Maastricht, 11 kilometres south of Nijmegen. The
War Cemetery lies on the road from Mook to Groesbeek. From the A73 motorway
take the exit at the junction Overasselt Mook Groesbeek. Follow the N271
towards Mook village itself from which the cemetery is signposted, the
Cemetery being situated on the Groesbeekseweg.
The village was entered by parachutists of the 82nd U.S. Airborne Division on 17th September, 1944; fighting continued in and around the village for four or five days until British armoured troops completed its liberation. The men buried in this cemetery died for the most part either during the fighting in the vicinity in September and October 1944, or at the time of the advance into Germany in February 1945; a few were casualties during the intervening period of artillery and patrol activity. There are now 311, 1939-1945 Commonwealth war casualties commemorated in this site, of these 15 are unidentified. Also commemorated here are 11 Foreign National casualties. No. of Identified Casualties: 307 |
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