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In the Canadian War Cemetery in Bergen op Zoom rest 1,116 soldiers, including 968 Canadians, who fell during the Second World War. Most soldiers died during the Battle of the Scheldt in the autumn of 1944.
The Battle of the Scheldt was one of the largest and most severe military operations on Dutch soil during the Second World War; a series of military operations that took place in the autumn of 1944 in the north of Belgium, the province of Zeeland and in West-Brabant.