Commemoration at Groesbeek
Last week a contingent of 225 members of the Canadian Forces pause during a 40-kilometre march to pay their respects to the fallen at Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery near Nijmegen, Netherlands. With them were VIPs, including the U.S. ambassador to Canada, MP Randy Hoback, the senior U.S. military attaché to Canada, and representatives of Veterans Affairs Canada, The Royal Canadian Legion and Logistik Unicorp.
Buried there are 2,338 Canadian soldiers and airmen who died liberating the Netherlands in 1944 and 1945. Allied Forces entered the Netherlands in September 1944, and cleared and secured the ports and coastline. Many of those in this cemetery were casualties of the Battle of the Rhineland, where the 2nd and 3rd Canadian infantry divisions and the 4th Canadian Armoured Division clea...