• List War Victims May 1940 - Military

Date of birth:

May 25th, 1904 (Amsterdam/North Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

May 10th, 1940 (Scheveningen/South Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch War Graves Den Haag
Grave: 4.

Nationality:

Dutch

Pilot officer 2nd class

As part of ‘Operation Scheveningen’, he flew with crew member N.R.L. Kooiman from the De Mok air base on Texel to the beach of Scheveningen on the morning of 10 May 1940 to board passengers and fly them to England. The operation was set up to get several ministers, a military delegation and, if possible, the Prince’s family out of the Netherlands. Two ministers managed to escape; the rest of the operation was a debacle.
Uijtenhoudt was killed on 10 May 1940 as a result of his Fokker T.VIII-w R4 being shot by a Messerschmitt Bf 109 near the beach of Scheveningen.

Crew member N.R.L. Kooiman was able to jump out of the plane, but as a result of a gunshot wound to his left shoulder and amputation of both legs, he would die on 12 May 1940.
Both were burried at the military mass grave in the Hague.

The first grave marker had stood for a short time on the grave at the Field of Honor. In 1942 the current grave monument was placed and the wooden crosses were removed. The grave cross of Jan Uijtenhoudt ended up via the family in the private museum of Mr. Boersma in The Hague. After his death the cross was included in the collection of the National Military Museum. There it was in storage for decades. The cross has now been transferred on long-term loan to the Tradition Chamber of the Naval Aviation Service.

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• Photo 1: IN MEMORIAM, De Oud-Kwekelingen van de Kweekschool voor de Zeevaart te Amsterdam 1939-1945, Derde herziene uitgave 2020
• - CHAMBON, A, In Memoriam, Comité Onze Marine, Den Helder, 1941.
  - POLDERMAN, K. & RUITER, H. DE, IN MEMORIAM, VOK, Amsterdam, 2020.
  - Collection Nationaal Militair Museum (Object number 726 and 7003)

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