Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Verpleegster (Nurse)

Unit:

Betrokken bij verzet (Member of resistance)

Awarded on:

December 14th, 1949

Citation:
"Having distinguished himself in battle by outstanding acts of courage, policy and loyalty by repeatedly demonstrating martial virtues as a resident of Renkum in the second half of September 1944 and thereafter during the evacuation of Renkum, resulting from his high sense of citizenship, by not only carrying out food and other transports for the benefit of his own population but also for cut-off British troops under extremely dangerous circumstances;
in particular by providing a section of these British military troops, numbering almost two hundred men, in an extremely daring manner in October 1944 with weapons and equipment that had been supplied in the meantime, for which purpose he had to transport these weapons and equipment with his cargo bike twenty times with great coolness right past a German Command Post at "Nol en het Bosch" near Renkum and then this section in the night of 21 to 22 October 1944 from the shelter he had chosen under very perilous circumstances due to possible discovery to the brick factory on the Rhine at To guide the troops southwest of Renkum and thus play a very active part in the safe crossing of the Rhine by these British troops."

Royal Decree no. 27 dated 14 December, 1949
5633rd Award.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Accompanying text to the newspaper article:
"In the second half of September 1944, Mr. Peelen repeatedly brought back to the Allied lines, under the most dangerous circumstances, units of the English airborne troops, totaling more than 200, who had been cut off after the battle of Arnhem."

Medal presented on 20 October, 1952 by the British Ambassador Sir Neville Butler at the British Embassy, The Hague.