Memorials and blue plaques in WW2 Northern Europe
D-Day beaches, the breakout through France, Operation Market Garden, the liberation of Belgium and the Netherlands, the Battle of the Bulge, the Rhineland push into Germany, and the Holocaust and resistance memorials kept in northern Europe today.
49 war memorials · 0 locations · 0 legacy pages
War memorials
20 of 49Names held in stone across the city.

Airborne Museum 'Hartenstein'
d. 1949War Memorial
Utrechtseweg 232, Oosterbeek, Netherlands

Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial
d. 1960War Memorial
Neupré (Neuville-en-Condroz), Belgium

Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery
d. 1945War Memorial
Van Limburg Stirumweg, Oosterbeek, Netherlands
Bastogne War Museum
d. 2014War Memorial
Colline du Mardasson 5, Bastogne, Belgium

Bayeux War Cemetery
d. 1952War Memorial
Boulevard Fabian Ware, 14400 Bayeux, France

Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
d. 1945War Memorial
Reviers, Calvados, Normandy, France

Bergen-Belsen Memorial
d. 1952War Memorial
Anne-Frank-Platz, 29303 Lohheide, Germany

Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery
d. 1945War Memorial
Ruytershoveweg, Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands

Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial
d. 1956War Memorial
Saint-James, Manche, Normandy, France

Fort Breendonk
d. 1947War Memorial
Brandstraat 57, Willebroek, Belgium

Fort Eben-Emael
d. 1935War Memorial
Rue du Fort 40, Eben-Emael, Belgium

Frihedsmuseet (Museum of Danish Resistance)
d. 1957War Memorial
Esplanaden 13, 1263 Copenhagen, Denmark

Gold Beach
d. 1944War Memorial
Arromanches / Ver-sur-Mer, Calvados, Normandy, France

Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery
d. 1945War Memorial
Zevenheuvelenweg, Groesbeek, Netherlands

Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial
d. 1960War Memorial
Route du Mémorial Américain 159, Hombourg, Belgium
Holten Canadian War Cemetery
d. 1945War Memorial
Eekhoornweg, Holten, Netherlands

Hürtgen German War Cemetery
d. 1952War Memorial
Hürtgenwald, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

John Frost Bridge, Arnhem
d. 1948War Memorial
John Frostbrug, Arnhem, Netherlands

Juno Beach
d. 1944War Memorial
Courseulles-sur-Mer, Calvados, Normandy, France

La Cambe German War Cemetery
d. 1961War Memorial
La Cambe, Calvados, Normandy, France
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Data sources
Location records are drawn from open, licence-clean datasets, kept here with attribution and gratitude to the people who maintain them.
- Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
- Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
- Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) - never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.
Editorial descriptions, photography and tribute links are original TributeLegacy work, layered on top of the open data.
