War Graves Week 2024 Overloon War Cemetery

Overloon War Chronicles Foundation is joining the “War Graves Week” again this year.

A global event organised by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. 
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, or CWGC is a global leader in commemoration. Founded in 1917, it commemorates the 1.7 million men and women of the British Commonwealth who lost their lives during the two world wars. The CWGC looks after cemeteries, memorials, graves, landscapes and records at 23,000 sites and in more than 150 countries and territories around the world.
One of these places is Overloon War Cemetery at Vierlingsbeekseweg in Overloon.

“War Graves Week” is an initiative of the CWGC to let people discover the war heritage near them. During guided tours, interested parties will hear impressive stories of the men of the Commonwealth armed forces who died in World War II and are buried at Overloon War Cemetery.
Free guided tours will be given at Overloon War Cemetery on Vierlingsbeekseweg in Overloon on:

Saturday, May 11 at 12.30pm
Wednesday 15 May at 19.00 hrs.
Registration is not necessary.

The tours last about 1.5 hours and are given by several members of the Overloon War Chronicles foundation.

The foundation aims to keep the Battle of Overloon alive and propagate it, both nationally and internationally. For several years now, we have been trying to trace family members who can help us find photos and background stories of the 281 soldiers buried in Overloon. This has already resulted in 178 portrait photographs that are regularly visible at the graves.