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MOOK WAR CEMETERY Limburg Netherlands
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The village of Mook is in the east of the Netherlands, approx 11kms south
east of the city of Nijmegen.
From the A73 motorway NIJMEGEN to VENLO take exit 3 (Afrit 3) MALDEN / GROESBEEK
/ MOOK / HEUMEN / OVERASSELT.
Follow signs for N271 MOOK.
Continue through the village of MOLENHOEK and in the village of MOOK turn left
at the roundabout (CWGC sign for MOOK WAR CEMETERY) onto the GROESBEEKSEWEG.
The cemetery is approx 400m on the left.
The cemetery address is:-
Groesbeekseweg
6585 Mook
Netherlands
GPS Location is:-
N 51 45 14
E 05 53 10
Wheelchair access to site possible - may be by an alternative entrance.
For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our
Enquiries Section on telephone number: 01628 507200
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.
Identified Casualties: 296
The following two pictures courtesy of Conrad Freeling


The following two pictures courtesy of Frits Kruishaar



334562 Second Lieutenant
Donald Robert McPherson
555 Field Coy.
Royal Engineers
03/03/1945, aged 22.
Son of John Jackson McPherson and Hannah Selina McPherson, of Brockley, London.
Killed in action when his jeep drove over a landmine.
Plot I. C. 3.
Picture courtesy of niece, Jean Stampton
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