Date of birth:

November 2nd, 1899 (Kesteren/Gelderland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

March 1942 (Indian Ocean)

Nationality:

Dutch

Captain SS Rooseboom

The ss Rooseboom left Emmahaven (Padang) for Colombo on February 26, 1942 with approximately 500 evacuees on board. The ship was torpedoed about 600 miles from the island of Siberia during the night of March 1 to 2.
Of the estimated number of 540 people on board, only six people survived the disaster.
Captain Boon is among the survivors. He dies in the lifeboat in the days after the disaster as a result of his hardships and is given a seaman's grave.

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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
• - POLDERMAN, K. & RUITER, H. DE, IN MEMORIAM, VOK, Amsterdam, 2020.
  - Marinus Cornelis Anthonie Boon | Oorlogsgravenstichting
  

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