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Merwe, van de, Gijsbert

Date of birth:
July 30th, 1925 (Rotterdam/Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands)
Date of death:
February 12th, 1944 (Cape Sounion, near Patroklos, Greece)
Nationality:
Dutch

Biography

Gijsbert van de Merwe has supposed to have been killed on February 12th, 1944 in the sinking of the s.s. Oria (1920). The ship transported Italian Prisoners of War and sank in a storm at Cape Sounion near the Island Patroklos, Greece.

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Sources

  • - information from the German Embassy