Military cemetery in Woensel, Eindhoven

The crew members of the Halifax-II were buried on the military part of the General Cemetery in Woensel, Eindhoven. The Canadian crew member C E. Hightower was in a later stage relocated to the Groesbeek Canadian military cemetery in Holland. Of all the soldiers who are buried on the Eindhoven cemetery about four fifth belonged to the air force, and died in the period between 1941 and 1944 during attacks over this part of Holland or on the return route from missions to Germany. The soldiers of the ground army who are buried here died between September 1944 and May 1945. During almost this entire period the 79th and 86th British general hospitals were located in Eindhoven. There are nearly 700, 1938-1945 war victims buried on this cemetery of which 679 victims have been identified. The crew members of the Halifax are to be found in Plot EE.

Sergeant, WILLIAM COLLINS

Age 21, Air Gunner
1600763, 10 Sqdn, Royal Air Force

Plot EE, grave 76

Pilot Officer, DOUGLAS BALDWIN ACKERLEY

Age 22, Air Bomber
148756, 10 Sqdn, Royal Air Force

Plot EE, grave 77

Pilot Officer, WILTON JONES

Age 34, Navigator
148459, 10 Sqdn, Royal Air Force

Plot EE, grave 94

Flying Officer, GEORGE DOWNEY

Age 36, Air Gunner
125931, 10 Sqdn, Royal Air Force

Plot EE, grave 92

Canadian military cemetery, Groesbeek

Most of the buried soldiers on the Groesbeek Canadian cemetery are Canadians of whom many were killed in February and March of 1945, during the battle of the Rhineland, when the Canadian 2nd and 3rd Infantry Divisions and the Canadian 4th Armoured Division took part in the battles South of Nijmegen to clear the area of Germans between the Meuse and Rhine river. Other nationalities who were buried here were killed before or after this period in the South part of Holland and in the Rhineland. On this cemetery lie 2,610 Canadian service men of whom nine of a different nationality. On the cemetery is also the Groesbeek Memorial on which the names of more than 1,000 service men are commemorated that died during the campaign in North-Western Europe in the period between the crossing of the Seine at the end of August 1944 until the end of the war in Europe of which the graves are unknown.

Pilot Officer, CECIL EARL HIGHTOWER

Age, 32, Flight Engineer

DFC-Distinguished Flying Cross

J/18022, 10 (R.A.F.) Sqdn, Royal Canadian Air Force, Plot XVI. B, grave 14