It is the largest cemetery that services the nearby[1] town of Amersfoort.
In the military sections are the graves of World War II victims, 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.
[2][3][4] A number of Soviet victims came from the nearby Kamp Amersfoort, including 101 Central Asian prisoners.
Most of them were Uzbeks or citizens of Samarqand, and were executed in woods near the camp, in April 1942.
[4][6] Joan Röell (1844–1914), who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1894 to 1897, is buried there.