CWGC Becklingen War Cemetery

Becklingen War Cemetery is the resting place for some 28 members of the 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion who were killed in action, or died from wounds, during the advance to the Baltic in the final stages of the World War II in Europe. It contains over 2,000 graves from the Second World War.

The small village of Becklingen lies in the north of Germany approx 85kms north of Hannover.

For more information about the cemetery on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) website please click here.

See also:
Wunstorf and Neustadt April 1945

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