Relation with Lake (class): no. Other cemetery in area (OCA)  
Total nr. of casualties buried here (TC): 0 end WW2, today 2. 
Lake casualties, initially, end WW2 (LC-I): 0
Unknown today: 0
of which unknown from Lake (LC-U): 0
of which unknown from North Sea (NS-U): 0
Initial burial site in WW2: no.
Post war burial site for collection and reburial from other sites: yes 
Cemetery with Lake casualties today: no.


         
IJMUIDEN - CEMETERY 'DUINHOF'

On this civilian cemetery are Dutch war graves, no commonwealth. Two are Dutch pilots who were flying in Dutch RAF squadrons (320 and 322) and were killed in action. 1 Lt. W. Matthijsen was shot down in his Hudson on a nightraid to Bremen on 26st of June 1942. He was moved to here after the war. His crew are interred in Bremen. Lt. A. A. Homburg was already a Dutch war hero before he went flying Spitfires. He was killed over the South of the Netherlands in 1945 and post war re-interred here. IJmuiden was his hometown. 




Dutch name cemetery: IJmuiden Begr. pl. Duinhof
Full name: plot wargraves OGS (Oorlogs Graven Stichting)
Address (usable for car navigation):
Slingerduinlaan or Heerenduinweg 4, Driehuis/IJmuiden.

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