Canadese en Britse erevelden
In Bergen op Zoom , there are two military cemeteries commemorating the area’s wartime history.
British war cemetery; the majority of the (predominantly British) war dead buried here are Royal Air Force personnel who were killed whilst flying over the Netherlands. The cemetery contains 1,284 graves. This cemetery also contains a few graves of soldiers who died during the First World War.
Canadian war cemetery; most of the servicemen buried here were killed during the Battle of the Scheldt (September–November 1944). A total of 1,119 soldiers found their final resting place at this cemetery. The majority of the fallen are Canadians, numbering 969.
