Bunkers at the cemetery

These smaller bunkers, dug into the dune sand, were intended for troops as well as for weapons and other supplies. After the war, they were used as storage spaces for the cemetery. They are located in the northwestern part of the grounds, behind the central building, against the slope of a dune hill. It is unclear how intensively they were used by the German army, but they are a good example of the small supply bunkers that were also part of the Atlantikwall.

The cemetery itself was designed in 1915 by the well-known Dutch landscape architect Leonard A. Springer. It also contains graves of war victims. Two British soldiers are buried here—one from the Air Force and one from the Navy—as well as a Dutch resistance fighter. P.J.B. Ruys de Perez was captured in 1942 while trying to flee to England. He was executed in the dunes and later buried at the Public Cemetery.