Date of birth:

December 8th, 1884 (Ooltgensplaat)

Date of death:

March 29th, 1945 (Dubbeldam)

Buried on:

Dutch War Graves General Cemetery Ooltgensplaat

Nationality:

Dutch

Pieter Troost lived in Ooltgensplaat. He was the son of Daniel Troost and Teuntje Kornet and married to Arentje van Dam.
Together with his then seventeen-year-old son Leendert, his son-in-law Jan Kanters and dairyman Arie van de Merwe, he was busy looking for fuel. They picked up a few pieces of wood from Wehrmacht poles (Rommel-asparagus), which was observed by a German patrol. All were mistreated. Except for Leendert, the others were tied together with iron wire. Then they had to lie down on the floor. After an hour and a half, the men were ordered to stand, after which they were killed with a shot in the neck. Leendert was spared because of his young age, but had to watch the gruesome scene.
On Wednesday, July 18, 1945, the bodies were found while digging a cable at the Kop van 't Land east of Dubbeldam on the Island of Dordrecht. Pieter and Jan were reburied together in Ooltgensplaat on Monday 23 July 1945.
Arie was reburied at the cemetery in Dubbeldam (Dordrecht).

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