Date of birth:

October 31st, 1919 (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Date of death:

February 1941 (North Sea)

Nationality:

Dutch

Commercial pilot/member of the resistance

Kerkhoff, in training for flight duty, tried to cross to England in the autumn of 1940 with the aim of enlisting as a war pilot. That attempt failed. On the night of February 4 to 5, 1941, another attempt was made from Katwijk. In good weather he managed to get into the sea in a boat. A few hours later the weather changed and a strong wind came up. Because he was never heard from again, it is certain that he died during the journey in February 1941.

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• - POLDERMAN, K. & RUITER, H. DE, IN MEMORIAM, VOK, Amsterdam, 2020.
  - Johannes Marinus Kerkhoff | Oorlogsgravenstichting
  

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