Onbekende Nederlander - Loenen, GE, NL
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N 52° 06.987 E 005° 59.935
31U E 705319 N 5778232
One of the many unknown graves at the Dutch cemetery of honor.
Waymark Code: WM14PPK
Location: Gelderland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 08/07/2021
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At the Dutch cemetery of honor, there are many graves of unknown Dutch soldiers. All these graves have the text: Onbekende Nederlander (unknown Dutchman) on it (see photo)
About the cemetery (Google translation):
National Field of Honor Loenen is a Dutch cemetery of honor located in Loenen on the Veluwe. It was officially opened by Princess Wilhelmina on October 18, 1949. There are almost 4,000 war casualties.
Design
Every grave has a lying stone...
The design of the plot is characteristic. The graves are arranged in rows along paths that wind through a forest area with a total area of ??17 hectares. There are no upright stones or crosses. Each grave has a uniformly sized horizontal white stone.
In the center of the plot is a chapel. It contains an oak shrine with 42 memorial books. These books contain the names of approximately 125,000 Dutch war victims whose grave location is not known or cannot be identified. In this way these people are commemorated. The warden of the field of honor turns a page of a book every day. On the wall of the chapel hangs a sign with the names of the England sailors who died. Many of them died en route and were given a seaman's grave.
To the left of the chapel is the monument The Falling Man by sculptor Cor van Kralingen. A wreath is laid at this monument every year on May 4.
On 19 January 2012, a monument was unveiled on the plot in memory of KNIL soldiers who were killed on 19 January 1942 by Japanese soldiers after capitulation during the Battle of Tarakan (1942). The monument was an initiative of Wieteke van Dort.
In November 2020, King Willem-Alexander opened the memorial and education center where visitors can meet six war victims, relatives who tell about the life of their loved one. Seven veterans will also receive attention. They tell about their experiences in a war zone.
WWII
The plot contains not only soldiers, but also many resistance fighters, political prisoners, England sailors and victims of forced employment (Arbeitseinsatz) in Nazi Germany.
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