Notable Graves
Among those buried here is Aubrey Cosens of the Queen's Own Rifles, who won the Victoria Cross leading an attack against Mooshof where he was killed by a sniper in February 1945.
Memorialized are Gustave Biéler, Frank Pickersgill, and Roméo Sabourin, Canadian members of the Special Operations Executive who were sent undercover into occupied France; all three were caught by the Germans and sent to concentration camps, where they were executed.
Read more about this topic: Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery
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