RM Missing in the Netherlands 1944-1945

Hello from the Netherlands, for my site I am looking for information/and documentation about soldiers killed in the Netherlands in the period 1940-1945.

If anyone can help out with RM on or not yet on the list, please get in touch with me, thanks in advance.

https://www.arnhem1944themissingones.com/non-arnhem-missing-in-the-netherlands-1940-1945/allied-ground-forces/

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 15/02/2017 08:04:29

Hi,

My long lost Uncle was killed at Arnhem and has no known grave,

There is a Dutch Army Unit that collects all remains as they are found and even use DNA to make a match:

Dutch Institute for War Documentation
Herengracht 380
1016 CJ Amsterdam
Tel: (020) 523 38 00
Fax: (020) 523 38 88
Email: through the contact form on the website
Internet: www.niod.nl.

Might be some use to you.

Regards

PM send

No 4 Army Commando
Cpl John Maybury 18/01/1945 Kamperland General Cemetery Zeeland Netherlands
Pte Douglas Gillon 20/01/1945 Wessenkerke Cemetery Zeeland Netherlands
Pte Edward A. Hutchison 08/03/1945 Wessenkerke Cemetery Zeeland Netherlands
Pte Patrick A. Wells 28/04/1945 Schoonselhof Cemetery Antwerpen Belgium
Fus Joseph Ball 03/06/1945 Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery Noord ? Brabant Netherlands
Lieut Nicholas W. Barras 01/11/1944 Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Pte Henry Donkin 01/11/1944 Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Gnr William Y. Harvey 01/11/1944 Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Gnr Edward A. Hill 01/11/1944 Groesberk Memorial Geldeland Netherlands
Pte John Stoddart 01/11/1944 Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery Noord-Brabant Netherlands
L/Sgt Alfred J. Walker 01/11/1944 Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Pte Owen G. Hooper 02/11/1944 Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Pte Pierre Laux 02/11/1944 Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery Noord-Brabant Netherlands
No 4 Army Commando (French)
L/Cpl Maurice Gourong 02/11/1944 Groix (Morbihan) France
Cpl Yvan Monceau 11/1944 Lanquais (Dordonce) France
Cpl Jean Montean 03/11/1944 Tostat Hautes-Pyrenees France
L/Cpl Jean Neven 02/11/1944

My father is listed above Gnr William Y Harvey. All the temporary cemeteries were moved to Bergen op Zoom in 1946 and the French were repatriated to their homeland in 1948.

Bill Harvey

One of 46RM Commando is buried in the Netherlands. Alexander Francis McDonald Harland is laid to rest in Venray War Cemetery - grave VI.D.13. He died on the 20/02/1945. Talking to some of our 46 Veterans they believe he died from an accidental gun discharge.