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Geus, de, Dirk

Date of birth:
August 13th, 1906 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Date of death:
January 7th, 1945 (Limmen, the Netherlands)
Buried on:
Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 34. 
Nationality:
Dutch

Biography

Dirk de Geus served in the French Foreign Legion in the twentys. During World War II he was a member of the Order Service, a Dutch resistance organization. At the end of the war he joined the Dutch Inland Forces. He was betrayed and arrested on 19 December 1944 together with is mother and mother in law. 3 weeks later, on 7 January 1945 he was executed in Limmen by the Germans. He is buried in the Honorary cemetery in Bloemendaal, the Netherlands.

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