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Dam, van, Wouter

    Date of birth:
    September 30th, 1904 (Putten/Gelderland, the Netherlands)
    Date of death:
    March 2nd, 1945 (Varsseveld/Gelderland, the Netherlands)
    Buried on:
    Dutch War Graves Communal Cemetery Oostergaarde Harderwijk
    Plot: 1e Afd.. Row: M2. Grave: 11.
    Nationality:
    Dutch

    Biography

    Wouter van Dam lived in Harderwijk, the Netherlands at the Smeerpoortenbrink 9. He married Grietje Gerards (October 25th, 1905, Harderwijk - September 8th, 1971, Enschede). The cople had one child. His profession was city service member and he was reformed of religion. As a resistance member he was member of the LO-Harderwijk, the Raad van Verzet and the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (BS), of which he was a platoon commander. By treason he was arrested on January 26th, 1945. With a group of others he was executed March 2nd, 1945 at 07.30 hours in a field as reprisal of the murder on four German military.

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