Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Dienstplichtig Soldaat (Enlisted Private)

Unit:

Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI), Imperial General Staff, War Office, British Government

Awarded on:

1947

"In recognition of services of a special nature rendered to the Allied cause during the war."

Posthumously awarded

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Dienstplichtig Soldaat (Enlisted Private)

Unit:

Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI), Imperial General Staff, War Office, British Government

Awarded on:

November 30th, 1948

Voordracht:
"Has distinguished himself through courageous conduct against the enemy by working continuously under extremely difficult circumstances with limited resources to send information to the Netherlands from 23 January 1942, on which day he was one of the first agents to land by parachute in the occupied Netherlands, until he was captured by the enemy on 29 May 1942, after which he was transferred to Mauthausen in Germany on 7 September 1944, after a stay in various prisons and concentration camps."

Royal decree no. 11 (posthumously awarded)