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The Rusthof cemetery (Dutch: begraafplaats Rusthof is located in Oud-Leusden, Leusden municipality, Utrecht Province, Netherlands. It is the largest cemetery that services Amersfoort, which is 4 km south of. Therefore it is often called Amersfoort General Cemetery or Amersfoort (Old Leusden) Cemetery or other variants.

It is a partly civilian partly military cemetery. Buried there are the victims of World War II, including 238 soldiers and pilots killed in action from the British Commonwealth, Poland, Belgium and France, also World War II military victims from Yugoslavia, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Portugal, Czechoslovakia and Italy (World War I and II), as well as 865 soldiers from the Soviet Union,
A number of Soviet victims came from the nearby Kamp Amersfoort. The Soviet soldiers were eventually reburied in 1947/1948 from some other places in what is called “the Russian Honor Field” or “the Soviet Field of Glory”

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Sometimes a picture says more then a thousand words

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It has been a very busy time for me, started a new job and had difficulties foccusing on both that,family and photography, just weren’t happy with my pictures anymore…
And then there was May… and a week with a lot of photo opportunities 😀
This one was taken on Liberation Day, 5th of May in Wageningen(Netherlands)during the parade …It’s an image that I can’t seem to forget, never forget

I wasn’t sure to post the coloured version aswell but as that was my image to start with here it is…