Behind the monument is a spacious villa from 1870, Huize Rustplaats, where doctor Kersemakers lived with his family. In the initial phase of Operation Market Garden, the 501^st Parachute Infantry Regiment, supplemented by Engineers from the 326^th Airborne Engineering Battalion, had been given the task of capturing and defending the four bridges over the Zuid-Willemsvaart canal and the Aa river so that ground troops could advance further towards Nijmegen and Arnhem. Doctor Kersemakers offered his house to use as a headquarters. After the war, the villa was renamed “Villa Klondike”, the call sign of the 501^st Regiment.