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Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial

(Netherlands, the - Limburg - Margraten)

8301 soldiers lay to rest at Margraten on this moment, 2 unknown soldiers are burried in 1 grave. Next to that there is a tombstone of an American soldier who was recently brought back to the USA (on the request of the widow).
Second Lieutenant Utecht was the last one to be buried on this cemetery, this happened on the 16th of September 1994.

There is also a story that, the cremated, Charles R. Correl was spread out over the cemetery. This is not confirmed by the cemetery and therefore not counted in the above mentioned numbers. There's also no tombstone for Correl.

There's also a memorial which has the names of the 1723 missing American soldiers engraved in it.

With thanks to: Hans Molier, Tom Notten, Ronald Stassen, Frenk Lahaye, Peter van Sleen and Henny de Bruijn

Source

Text:
American Battle Monuments Commission
Photos:
ABMC.gov (1), Ewoud van Eig (2,3,4) & Fedor de Vries (5)

Address and contactinformation

Address:
Amerikaanse Begraafplaats 1
6269 NA Margraten
Website:
www.abmc.gov
WWII grade:
100%
Rating:
100%

Where is it?

 

Amongst others, the following persons are buried here (Overview)

Name Date of death
Byrnes, William J. september 25th, 1944
Claypool, James G. februari 27th, 1945
Collins, Jimmie D., III june 21st, 1944
Cornelius, Marshall J. october 25th, 1944
Grainger, Fred september 17th, 1944

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