Field marshal Montgomery honorary citizen of Nijmegen (Weeknummer 55-35) 🔴
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Date: 17/01/2018

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Publication Date: 19 August 1955

Description: Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a particular week are presented.

Description (more): Field marshal Montgomery B.L. comes with the NATO training ship Amiral Exelmans to in Nijmegen, the city where he had his headquarters during operation Market Garden 1944. He is greeted by Mayor Charles Hustinx, C.G.K. Quarles van Ufford, Queen's Commissioner in Gelderland, and sir Paul Mason, Ambassador of Great Britain. In the Town Hall during a special Council meeting is the gold medal and the award of the honorary citizenship of the city of Nijmegen to Montgomery, followed by a hoorah. The following day brings Montgomery to a visit to the Airborne cemetery Oosterbeek, where he lays a wreath at the Memorial.

Contributor Information: Bailey, Philip (comment)