| Rheinberg War Cemetery |
| Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
Picture courtesy of Gerd Hubrich
| Rheinberg is 24 kilometres north of
Krefeld and 13 kilometres south of Wesel. The cemetery is 3 kilometres south
of the centre of the town of Rheinberg on the road to Kamp Lintfort. From
the motorway 57, turn off at Rheinberg and at the T junction follow the
B.510 (Rheinberger Strasse) in the direction Kamp Lintfort. The cemetery is
a short way along this road on the right.
The site of Rheinberg War Cemetery was chosen in April 1946 by the Army Graves Service for the assembly of Commonwealth graves recovered from numerous German cemeteries in the area. The majority of those now buried in the cemetery were airmen, whose graves were brought in from Dusseldorf, Krefeld, Munchen-Gladbach, Essen, Aachen and Dortmund; 450 graves were from Cologne alone. The men of the other fighting services buried here mostly lost their lives during the battle of the Rhineland, or in the advance from the Rhine to the Elbe. There are now 3,326 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated at Rheinberg War Cemetery. 156 of the burials are unidentified. There are also nine war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish. No. of Identified Casualties: 3179 |
1576002 Flight Sergeant
(Air Gunner)
Eric Ewan
49th Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
23/09/1943, aged 21.
Son of Thomas Rawlinson Ewan and his wife Jane Ewan of Wolverhampton. He was on plane AJ-Y "York" as front gunner in the third wave of the "Dambusters" raid (617 Squadron), he survived this famous raid only to be later KIA serving with 49 Squadron on 23rd September 1943
Plot 18. A. 17.
Picture courtesy of Dave Shaw
R/141503 Flight Sergeant
(Air Gunner)
John Blake Higginson
Royal Canadian Air Force
11/09/1942, aged 23.
Son of John Bright Higginson and Frances Ann Higginson, of Westmount, Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.
Plot 2. B. 10.
John Blake
Higginson - KIA - operation Dusseldorf, Sept. 11, 1942 on maiden sortie. Pilot
Creighton Ogilvie ordered Navigator Laurie Hedley to bail out (he survived as a
POW) - no communication available to crew in the back but there was a fire. As
far as I can tell the pilot, although not injured at the time refused to leave
his crew and died with the rest of his men.
Picture and information courtesy of Peggy Higginson, loving niece of John
Blake Higginson - forever remembered. Much thanks to Brian Ogilvie for
gathering so much information on this, my Uncles last day.
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