About Rotterdam (Crooswijk) General Cemetery. Rott

[larneman]

But you talk about "graves" (plural) so perhaps there are more WWI-graves in Crooswijk, which escaped my attention? If you desperately need some pictures I can always shoot you some...

This is info I had at my work.

Rotterdam (Crooswijk) General Cemetery. Rotterdam lies 23 kilometres

southeast of the Hague and 52 kilometres southwest of Utrecht. Crooswijk is

a district east of the.centre of the city. The address of the cemetery is

Algemene Begraafplaats, Kirkoflaan 5, Rotterdam.

Historical Notes:- Rotterdam General Cemetery (South Holland) at Crooswijk

belongs to the Town Council. There is one British, 23 French and 14 German

war graves.

Notes: There is 1 Commonwealth burial of the 1914-1918 war and a further 124 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war, 5 of which are unidentified.

There are 11 Polish burials.

The one I am interested in, is in Crooswijk. It is not for me personally but I promised someone I would get for him.

RND WW1 with Headstone errors of Lt.Cdr. Cuddy, who shot himself in Rotterdam in 1916. Know nothing else about the chap.

The other is in Steenbergen and that is Wing.Cdr. Guy P. Gibson VC DSO DFC's headstone and his memorial in the town. We all know what he did in the ww2.

This will explain how the RND got into Holland and what happened to them http://www.begent.freeserve.co.uk/james.htm

This is some of their graves http://www.war1418.com/timbertown/zuiderbe...aats/index.html

I know how the RND ended up in Holland but were did the 23 French and 14 German come from to end up in a war grave in Rotterdam.

greetings from Hoogwoud

Liam

[Guest AnneM]

Hi Liam,

It seems we both took the same initiative...

I already replied to your message in a new topic while you were typing this topic... I guess..

Nevermind,

Annemarie