Becklingen War Cemetery CWGC
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World / Germany / Niedersachsen / Luneburg
Second World War 1939-1945, cemetery
2,374 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 97 of them unidentified. There are also 27 war graves of other nationalities, many of them Polish.
The site of Becklingen War Cemetery was chosen for the position on a hillside overlooking Luneburg Heath, where Field-Marshal Montgomery accepted the German surrender from Admiral Doenitz on 4 May 1945.
www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=2009...
The site of Becklingen War Cemetery was chosen for the position on a hillside overlooking Luneburg Heath, where Field-Marshal Montgomery accepted the German surrender from Admiral Doenitz on 4 May 1945.
www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=2009...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becklingen_War_Cemetery
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Coordinates: 52°53'22"N 9°54'56"E
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