The Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery and Memorial is located about three kilometers north of the village of Groesbeek, Netherlands. The cemetery contains 2,338 Canadian soldiers of World War II. Many of the dead interred here were re-interred from temporary burial in Germany. It is believed that all fallen Canadian soldiers of the Rhineland battles, who were buried in German battlefields, were reinterred here (except for one who is buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery). General H.D.G. Crerar, who commanded Canadian land forces in Europe, ordered that Canadian dead were not to be buried in German soil.
The wall which lists the names of those whose bodies were never recovered. At the bottom, on the left side of the wreath, there is a small plant with a card that reads the following:
"Staff Seargent Gordon Albert Rickwood. Killed in Action at Arnhem, 18 Septmebr 1944. To Dad, with thanks for being my guardian angel. Anne, 2007"