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Friesemann Viëtor, Jan Hendrik

Date of birth:
October 8th, 1899 (Winschoten/Groningen, Netherlands)
Date of death:
February 16th, 1944 (Nong Pladuk, Thailand)
Buried on:
Commonwealth War Cemetery Kanchanaburi
Row: 3C. Grave: 16.
Nationality:
Dutch

Biography

Soldier KNIL

Viëtor was taken prisoner of war on Java by the Japanese occupiers on March 19, 1942 and subsequently spent time in various internment camps. In 1943 he was employed on the Burma Railway; He died on February 16, 1944 in the prisoner of war camp in Non Pladuk (Thailand) and was buried at the war cemetery in Kanchanaburi.

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