• List War Victims May 1940 - Military

Date of birth:

October 5th, 1895 (Ellecom, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

May 12th, 1940 (Veere, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch War Cemetery Grebbeberg
Grave: 1362.

Service number:

4875

Nationality:

Dutch

Sergt. monteur K.M.R.

He was stationed at Veere air base (Zeeland) and died on the evening of 12 May 1940 during the battle for the fatherland when he and sailor Volkerts Meindert Deen were mistaken for a parachutist.
He was originally buried at the special cemetery at the Havenkade in IJmuiden.
His remains were later reburied at the Grebbeberg Military Cemetery.

"Ick wil het vendel sweien
Van Neerlands fieren leeuw!
En met Oranje meien
Vercieren wees en weeuw!"
Text taken from the old Wilhelmus.

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• - CHAMBON, A, In Memoriam, Comité Onze Marine, Den Helder, 1941.
  

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