Date of birth:

December 18th, 1917 (Hengelo, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

March 8th, 1945 (Woeste Hoeve-Apeldoorn, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Field of Honour Loenen
Plot: A. Grave: 749.

Nationality:

Dutch

Herman Leus was Sergeant-titulitair with the Bureau Inlichtingen (Intelligence office), Detachement London. In 1944 he was as a telegraph operator of J. Faber, in the Netherlands in a small township called Drie, near Ermelo, Gelderland, the Netherlands. Here he was part of a resistance group at a locations called the Bunker van Drie and acted under the name "Sjaak". The resistance group was ambushed by the SD (Sicherheitsdienst) on 13th December 1944 at the location of their radio in small pit near a firetower in the woods at Drie. The SD had managed to retrieve names and adresses of the resistance and after this, the location at Drie was betrayed. During the ambush, one resistance fighter was killed, another wounded and Leus was captured unarmed.

Leus was send by MI6 to the Netherlands in "Operation BRADFIELD" and with the traffic plan St. JUDE. His internald codename was "GERARD" and "JACOB WEENINK". He operated under the field name "Jan Willem Wiemers".

On 8th March 1945, Herman Leus was executed at Woeste Hoeve as one of the 117 people that were executed in retalliation for a resistance action at Woeste Hoeve near Apeldoorn, where a car was ambushed in which Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer Hanns Rauter was seriously wounded.

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