For 75 years, Willemien Rieken tended to the grave of a soldier killed during WW2

A Dutch woman who had tended the World War Two grave of a Scottish soldier since she was a nine-year-old girl has died.
After the Battle of Arnhem in Holland in 1944, children who had lived near the scene of the fighting were given a war grave to maintain.
Willemien Rieken, 85, looked after the resting place of Trooper William Edmund from Musselburgh.
Her death has been announced by the Arnhem 1944 Fellowship.
She was one of the last surviving Flower Children, young people who laid flowers at hundreds of graves of Allied casualties in a ceremony after the end of the war.
Niall Cherry, secretary of the Arnhem 1944 Fellowship, said the charity was saddened to be told of her death.
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