Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Tijdelijk Kolonel van het wapen der Cavelarie

Unit:

Inlichtingendienst, Ordedienst (OD), Nederlands Verzet

Awarded on:

August 29th, 1948

Recommendation:
For having distinguished himself in combat against the enemy by performing outstanding acts of courage, tact and loyalty, shortly after the enemy had occupied the Netherlands in May 1940, by starting to set up covert activities and taking charge of the intelligence service of what was then the Ordedienst.
Furthermore by contacting one of the first Dutch agents dispatched from England and lending him shelter and support as well as a radio operator, equally dispatched from England and taking charge of them both. In addition by drafting messages and collecting information beneficial to the Allied conduct of the war and sending them to England.
Moreover, after the agent and the radio operator as well as various members of the intelligence service mentioned above, had been arrested as a result of betrayal within the organization, continuing to deny with remarkable persistance any involvement with the intelligence service, even under inhuman torture and once during a continuos interrogation lasting 100 hours in order to save the lives of his comrades, after which he was transferred to Natzweiler in the Alsace first and later to Dachau without the enemy having succeeded in forcing him to confess.

Royal decree no. 8

Awarded on:

September 1982

Awarded on:

June 4th, 1955

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

1948

Awarded on:

December 14th, 1954

Awarded on:

1957

Awarded on:

1957

Awarded on:

December 1965

Awarded on:

June 21st, 1970

Awarded on:

January 1987