Two VC winners side by side in the Heverlee War Cemetery is a CWGC World War Two cemetery in Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.
"Flying Officer Garland was the pilot and Sergeant Gray the observer of the leading machine of a formation of five aircraft that were ordered to destroy at all costs a bridge over the Albert Canal" in May 1940. "Heverlee War Cemetery is located 30 kilometres from Brussels and 3 kilometres south of Leuven. The British Expeditionary Force was involved in the later stages of the defence of Belgium following the German invasion in May 1940, and suffered many casualties in covering the withdrawal to Dunkirk. Commonwealth forces did not return until September 1944, but in the intervening years, many airmen were shot down or crashed in raids on strategic objectives in Belgium, or while returning from missions over Germany. The cemetery now contains 977 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 37 of them unidentified. " CWGC web site
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Location: Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
Photo credit: © Maurice Savage / Alamy / Afripics
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