Dutch War Graves General Cemetery Crooswijk

Kerkhoflaan 5, Rotterdam (Kralingen-Crooswijk)
South Holland, Netherlands, the

On Crooswijk General Cemetery in Rotterdam are two plots with Dutch war graves. There is a Dutch plot with 115 war graves, mainly for soldiers who died during the battle in May 1940. There is also a plot with 12 Dutch soldiers who died during the bombing of Rotterdam. On the large plot is also the grave of Ernst Herbert Piena, who died in New Guinea in 1962.

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Text by: Fedor de Vries & TracesOfWar.nl

Photo(s): Dick de Bruijne

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