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Westkapelle Liberation Memorial

d. 1954

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Photograph at the Westkapelle Liberation Memorial war memorial

Memorial on the dyke at Westkapelle commemorating the British Commando assault on Walcheren on 1 November 1944, which cleared the seaward approaches to the port of Antwerp.

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