The Netherlands fell to the Germans in May 1940 and was not re-entered by Allied forces until September 1944. There was severe fighting in the vicinity of Overloon in October-November 1944, when the Germans were being cleared out of the region south and west of the Maas in preparation for the final attack on the Rhineland. Most of the burials in Overloon War Cemetery are of men who died during these months. All but one of the 280 burials here are British; 265 are soldiers and 14 airman. The remaining burial is one of a Dutch soldier. They mostly fell in during the fights of October and November 1944 in the advance by the British second army to the Waal. This is not a large cemetery, compared to Henri-Chapelle or Ardennes. But since it is right next to the Overloon War Cemetery it's worth a stop! read more

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