TracesOfWar needs your help! Every euro, pound or dollar you contribute greatly supports the continuation of this website. Go to stiwot.nl and donate!

Commonwealth War Graves Oostduinkerke

Oostduinkerke Communal Cemetery contains a plot of 180 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 31 of them unidentified.

Most of those Commonwealth servicemen buried at Oostduinkerke Communal Cemetery died in the heavy fighting along the Newport-Veurne-Dunkirk Canal, while covering the retreat of the British Expeditionary Force to Dunkirk in May 1940.

Do you have more information about this location? Inform us!

Source

  • Text: Fedor de Vries
  • Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck (1, 2, 3), Johnny Raes (4, 5)

Related books

België in de Tweede Wereldoorlog 10
The Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean
Blitzkrieg in the West
Germany's Lightning War