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Doornik, Jan Louis Guillaume 'Marcel Millot'

Date of birth:
June 26th, 1905 (Parijs, France)
Date of death:
August 29th, 1941 (Mont Valérien, Parijs, France)
Buried on:
French War Graves Cimetière du Père-Lachaise
Nationality:
Dutch

Biography

Jan Doornik studied in France and then in Switzerland.
In May 1940 during the German invasion, he was in Belgium on business and could not join the Netherlands to enlist. He goes to France, arrives in Paris by forced march, his feet bleeding, and immediately goes to the Dutch military attache who advises him to wait. But wanting to fight without delay, Doornik joined Cardiff on June 18 and volunteered in the shock formation of a Dutch corps.
He then joined the Free French Forces.
He took part in setting up the Nimrod network.
He was executed on August 29, 1941 at Mont-Valérien, in the company of Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves and Maurice Barlier.

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
May 24th, 1950
Verzetskruis 1940-1945 (VKN)
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Compagnon
Awarded on:
March 7th, 1945
posthumously awarded
l' Ordre de la Libération

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