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At the end of another long day, we managed to fit in 3 more sites of interest in the Mook and Groesbeek area. The Commonwealth war cemetery in Mook was first, the National Liberation Museum in Groesbeek second, and the mainly Canadian Groesbeek Commonwealth war cemetery as the last rays of the sun set. Mook is a small cemetery, set off to one side of a small country lane. It was an idyllic setting in the warm weather we had, but there were some of the saddest stories I’d heard of in there. Most of the men (or more accurately in some cases, boys) buried here died during the months of September & October 1944. The National Liberation Museum is an extraordinary sight. It’s nestled in the hills and resembles an inflated parachute. The main hall houses all the usual fare, whilst the parachute like building has books for every regiment who fought in the liberation of Holland and the bordering German lands with the names of the fallen recorded. The Groesbeek Commonwealth war cemetery has casualties mainly killed during the battles to clear the land between the rivers Maas and Rhine in February and March 1945 in Operation Varsity. The National Liberation Museum’s website can be accessed here: http://www.bevrijdingsmuseum.nl/en/ |
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