Venray War Cemetery

Limburg

Location Information:

Venray is located 40 kilometres east of Eindhoven in the south east province of Limburg on the N270. At the junction with the N553 follow the N553 towards the centre and at the first crossroads turn left into Zuidsingel. Follow this road and the cemetery is signposted to the left along Hoenderstraat. Turn into Hoenderstraat and the cemetery is along here on the right, past all the houses.

Historical Information:

The Netherlands fell to the Germans in May 1940 and was not re-entered by Allied forces until September 1944. The town of Venray was liberated by Allied troops in the middle of October 1944, and the burials in the cemetery date from October 1944 to March 1945. Venray War Cemetery contains 692 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 30 of them unidentified, and one Polish burial.