News - Overloon War Chronicles

Mondial College Nijmegen visiting Overloon War Cemetery

Written on 21 January 2026.

Mondial College Nijmegen Overloon War Cemetery

Over the past few days, we welcomed around 200 students from Mondial College Leuvensbroek in Nijmegen to Overloon War Cemetery. After visiting the Overloon War Museum, we told them about the servicemen buried in the cemetery, about the Battle of Overloon and the long journey most of them had already made before they lost their lives and were buried here.

Looking back at Lights on War Graves 2025 in Overloon

Written on 29 December 2025.

On Christmas Eve, we gathered at Overloon War Cemetery for Lights on War Graves 2025. It was indescribably wonderful to see how much interest there was from adopters, residents, veterans from the Land van Cuijk, Mayor Marieke Moorman, Councillor Bouke van Vugt and many partners and other interested parties.

Lights on War Graves Christmas Eve 2025 Overloon War Cemetery

Written on 1 December 2025.

Lichtjes op Oorlogsgraven Land van Cuijk

Overloon War Chronicles Foundation is organising Lights on War Graves at the War Cemetery in Overloon on Christmas Eve again this year. Together with the Veterans Land van Cuijk, the adopters and other interested parties, candles will be placed at the 281 graves of the soldiers for the ninth time.

Overloon War Chronicles Foundation Welcomes CWGC Gardeners for Team Day

Written on 10 November 2025.

Overloon War Chronicles Foundation had the honour of welcoming a group of gardeners from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) for their team day. We shared stories about the Battle of Overloon, told a few personal tales of the soldiers buried at the local cemetery, and visited several historic Second World War sites in and around Overloon.

Ten years later back on the battlefield Overloon.

Written on 2 November 2025.

In an old Dutch Tilburg newspaper dated 4 November 1954, we came across this article in which a wounded British officer made an appointment with a Scottish soldier on 1 November 1944 to return to the Overloon battlefield 10 years later. Those who would not show up had to pay the other person's travel expenses. On exactly 1 November 1954, at 1 p.m., they both kept their appointments.

Family visit of Bobby Milton

Written on 5 October 2025.

Graf Bobby Milton tijdens de herdenkingsceremonie in Oktober 2025

This weekend we welcomed family members of Robert (Bobby) Milton in Overloon. Robert served with the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, 4th Battalion, and was killed in action at the age of 19 on 15 October 1944 in Overloon, in the area around the Schaartven.We took them on a battlefield tour in the surroundings of Overloon and around the Schaartven, where Bobby fell and where he was first buried in a field grave. It was a truly historic place for the family. It felt very close and deeply meaningful to be there. At his grave at Overloon War Cemetery a beautiful commemorative ceremony was held.