"Dedicated to Harold & Bruce Queen's... " a Groesbeek Travel Page by Waalewiener

Name: QUEEN, HAROLD ALLEN
Initials: H A
Nationality: Canadian
Rank: Sergeant (Air Gnr.)
Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Unit Text: 207 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Date of Death: 31/08/1943
Service No: R/98092
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XV. F. 10.
Cemetery: GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

Harold Allen Queen was the brother of my wife Lori's
uncle Bruce Queen , both were brothers and entered the services like thousands of other young Canadians did .Uncle Bruce was with the Calgary Highlanders
and he went overseas and landed in France and fought battles through France, Belgium ,Zeeland in the Netherlands and as far as into Germany.Uncle Bruce survived the war and married my wife Lori's aunt . Harold Allen Queen died in the Netherlands on a failed mission in a plane over Holland.
Sergeant Harold Queen was an
Air Gunner in the Regiment Royal Canadian Air Force. 207 R.A.F Sgdn.
We were asked by Lori's aunt ,the wife of Bruce Queen if we could take some pictures when we visited Groesbeek of the grave of
Harold . Allen. Queen .
I like to dedicate these Groesbeek pages to the family of Harold & Bruce Queen .
This is in honor of two great Canadian Soldiers.

Allied forces entered the Netherlands on 12 September 1944. Airborne operations later that month established a bridgehead at Nijmegen and in the following months, coastal areas and ports were cleared and secured, but it was not until the German initiated offensive in the Ardennes had been repulsed that the drive into Germany could begin. Most of those buried in Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery were Canadians, many of whom died in the Battle of the Rhineland, when the 2nd and 3rd Canadian Infantry Divisions, and the 4th Canadian Armoured Division, took part in the drive southwards from Nijmegen to clear the territory between the Maas and the Rhine in February and March 1945. Others buried here died earlier or later in the southern part of the Netherlands and in the Rhineland. The cemetery contains 2,610 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, and nine war graves of other nationalities. Within the cemetery stands the Groesbeek Memorial, which commemorates by name more than 1,000 members of the Commonwealth land forces who died during the campaign in north-west Europe between the time of crossing the Seine at the end of August 1944 and the end of the war in Europe, and whose graves are not known.