Date of birth:

February 19th, 1912 (Schaerbeek, Belgium)

Date of death:

September 5th, 1980 (Dordrecht, the Netherlands)

Nationality:

Dutch (1815-present, Kingdom)

Herman Christiaan Hanewinckel served in the Dutch merchant marine during World War II. On April 17, 1940, he married M. Koning while he was hospitalized with typhoid.

On December 12, 1942, he was a third officer aboard steamship Ombilin of the Dutch Paketvaart Maatschappij. After the ship was torpedoed on this date by the Italian submarine Enrico Tazzoli, he escaped aboard larboard sloop no. 2. The sloop with a total of twenty-two people on board reached the north coast of Brazil on December 22 and New York on December 30.

Around 1947 he was rejected from the Royal Paketvaart-Maatschappij (KPM) because of his war injuries. He went to work at Philips in Eindhoven. Later he was employed at Johan de Witt (Philips) in Dordrecht. At or around the age of 58 he took early retirement, partly because of his war injuries. He died in 1980, after which his ashes were scattered at sea.

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

May 4th, 1951

For service in the Dutch merchant navy 1940-1945 and exceptional war actions Java sea 1941-1942 and East Asia – South-Pacific 1942-1945.

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  - Awarding letter clasps.