Family Information:
Son of Daniel and Lovina Good; husband of Laura Etta Good, of
Vineland, Ontario.
Cemetery:
Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery
Grave Reference:
VIII. F. 14..
Location:
Gelderland
The village of Groesbeek is in the east of the Netherlands and
approx 10kms south east of the city of Nijmegen.
From the A73 motorway Nijmegen to Venlo take exit 3 (Afrit
3) Malden / Groesbeek / Mook / Heumen / Overasselt.
Follow signs for N271 Mook.
Continue through the village of Molenhoek and in the village of
Mook turn left at the roundabout (CWGC sign for Mook War Cemetery)
onto the Groesbeekseweg.
Continue for approx 4.5kms and then turn left at the roundabout
onto the Pannenstraat.
Continue through the town where the road name changes to Dorpstraat.
Turn left onto Burgemeester Ottenhoffstraat (CWGC Sign). After
approx 100m turn right (CWGC sign) onto Zevenheuvelenweg.
The cemetery is approx 2kms along this road on the right.
Additional Information:
Allied forces entered the Netherlands on 12 September 1944. Airborne
operations later that month established a bridgehead at Nijmegen
and in the following months, coastal areas and ports were cleared
and secured, but it was not until the German initiated offensive
in the Ardennes had been repulsed that the drive into Germany
could begin.
Most of those buried in Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery were Canadians, many of whom died in the Battle of the Rhineland, when the 2nd and 3rd Canadian Infantry Divisions and the 4th Canadian Armoured Division took part in the drive southwards from Nijmegen to clear the territory between the Maas and the Rhine in February and March 1945. Others buried here died earlier or later in the southern part of the Netherlands and in the Rhineland.
The cemetery contains 2,610 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, and nine war graves of other nationalities.
Within the cemetery stands the Groesbeek Memorial, which commemorates
by name more than 1,000 members of the Commonwealth land forces
who died during the campaign in north-west Europe between the
time of crossing the Seine at the end of August 1944 and the end
of the war in Europe, and whose graves are not known.