1926 result(s)
Landmark
Ashley Walk Bomb testing ground can be found off Roger Penny Way; there are also numerous walking trails that lead int...
Christ Church, Portsdown, was the place where the now titled ‘Knight’s Vigil’ took place on 4 June 1944, two days befo...
Battlefield
On April 24, 1945, the Canadian soldiers of the Irish Regiment of Canada had cleared the village of Wagenborgen of the l...
Story
Haren is visited by a wonderful group of liberators. On Friday evening the Essex Scottish Regiment advanced to Paterswol...
After the liberation in April 1945, Eelde was the central point for “The 8th Princess Louise New Brunswick Hussars”. Thi...
Monument
On 11 November 1944, pilots of the Royal Canadian Air Force, based at Welschap airfield near Eindhoven, were ordered to ...
The grave monument in Gytsjerkwas erected in memory of Maria v/d Heuij. Maria was one of seventy evacuees from Arnhem an...
On 12 April, ten captured Dutch collaborators were shot without trial just outside Oldeberkoop. It was long thought that...
As part of Operation Market Garden, British paratroopers landed on the Ginkel Heath in September 1944. This led to heav...
On 12 April, the Royal Canadian Dragoons were the first Canadian ground units to enter the province of Friesland near No...
Saint-Raphaël was a major Resistance centre throughout the war, with the momentum of fighters with varying beliefs. Acti...
The Nazi massacre at San Quirico took place on 19 August 1944. Twenty men were selected from a group of civilians forced...
The plaque commemorates fallen partisans Natale Tamburini, Leo Innocenti and Sergio Sorri, who were responsible for an a...
Kerkrade's Nieuwstraat can justifiably be called unique, as the street marks the border between two countries. The even ...
Father Aldo Mei was a member of the Lucca Resistance. Parish priest of Fiano di Pescaglia, he gave refuge, protection an...
The Socciglia labour camp was established in Borgo a Mozzano at the end of 1943 to intern forced labourers in the servic...
Pietro Pistis was a Sardinian partisan active in Lucca. A disbanded soldier of the Royal Army, after the Armistice he jo...
The concentration camp for Italian and foreign Jews in Bagni di Lucca operated from December 1943 to January 1944, when ...
Audiospot
After the airborne landings of September 17, the inhabitants of Reek near Grave are awaiting the liberators. On Tuesday,...
Museum
A museum about war and peace...
Cemetery
In the British Military Cemetery in Mook, 322 soldiers are buried. Many of those lying here were killed in the Betuwe re...
The sanctuary of San Rocco in Palleroso, a small hamlet of Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, houses the shrine to the fallen so...
Attilio Vergai was a protagonist of the Garfagnana Resistance. A former mayor of Villa Collemandina, he collaborated wit...