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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
Belcher, Guy E. october 6th, 1944
Clay, Willard L. october 22nd, 1944
Marcotte, John H. march 17th, 1945
McClure, James S. november 24th, 1944
Weaver, Ernest E. july 29th, 1944

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We visited this cemetery already for a long time and we are again and again deeply impressed what these soldiers did for our libveration in Holland.
Thank you.
By: de Leeuw
City: Oosterhout NB Holland
Date and time: 15-03-2007 18:41:15