Ysselstyn War Cemetery

[Laurent Rizzotti]

Thanks, Jaap and John

[Wybe Buising]

Hi there,

you may find some clues in the order of burial per plot after the war.

Plot M- Deelen (not verified)
Plot Q+R (Row 11): Enschede
Plot Z(1-6)+AA(1-6) - Eindhoven
Plot AR-Leeuwarden (not verified)
plot BC- Haamstede (not verified)
Plot BG(1-11)- Hilversum
Plot BN-Venlo (not verified)
Plot CT(2-12)+CV(1-3)+CW(1-12)+CX(1-12) - Amsterdam

Funny thing is that some of burial of the German cemetery of Utrecht is quite dispersed across this Ysselsteyn cemetery:

BX(1-10), BY(1-9), CC(10-11) - Utrecht (regular war deads)
CR (4), TC(5), TFF(8-12) - Utrecht - executions/death penalties soldiers and German suicides.

Regards

Wybe Buising

[David P. Williams]

Thanks very much to all of you who have sent in replies. The information contained therein is most useful and will make my trip to the cemetery much easier. Thank you all again!

[John Manrho]

The reburials at Ysselsteyn most of the time took place per cemetery. The platoons tasked with the reburials moved from one cemetery to another, not necessarily in one city at the same time. For instance Utrecht:

1) Tolsteeg Cemetery in Utrecht (former "Heldenfriedhof"):
Reburials in January 1948 540 dead were reburied in:
BX-1 to 230
BY-1 to 225
CB-226 to 300
CC-226/233/251/254

2) Fieldgrave at Fort Blauwkapel.
Reburied in September 1949 to BR-12-287

3) General Cemetery at Soestbergen.
The dead at this cemetery either committed suicide or were executed. For this reason they were not buried at the Heldenfriedhof.
Reburial March 1954, in total 48 dead
TC-60 to 62
TFF-95 to 138

By the way, the blocks starting with an T originally started with an ST. So Block TC was originally STC. The ST stands for "statenloos" or "Stateless". The idea was to bury at these Blocks the Dutch who entered German military and were killed during the war. As these Dutch men entered German military service, by Dutch law they lost their Dutch nationality. However, in fact the Blocks ST were used for every purpose later and you can find Germans, Dutch, etc. buried at these blocks now.

regards,

John.