Date of birth:

July 9th, 1899 (Zwartewaal/South Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

November 29th, 1943 (at sea off the Kangean Islands)

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in the Dutch East Indies. Son of Pieter Nieuwdorp (head of a school) and Arendje Adriana Neecken. Landstorm sergeant KNIL. He was a prisoner of war aboard the Japanese steamship Suez Maru, which was torpedoed by the American submarine USS Bonefish just east of the Kangean Archipelago. The Japanese army leadership did not allow Allied prisoners to survive or fall into enemy hands. The drowning people floating in the sea were shot dead from the deck of the minesweeper W 12. Nieuwdorp got a seaman's grave.

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Sergeant

Awarded on:

September 1st, 2016

On Thursday, September 1, 2016, the posthumously awarded Mobilization War Cross was presented to the late Lst.Sgt.1st class Inf. KNIL, Willem Hendrik Nieuwdorp by Mr Jacq Brijl on behalf of Minister of Defense Jeanne Hennis-Plasschaert, to granddaughter Irene Scheffens-Willinge.

• Photo 1: Oorlogsgravenstichting
• - OGS Gedenkboek 39 - Op zee, Oorlogsgravenstichting.
  - Willem Hendrik Nieuwdorp | Oorlogsgravenstichting