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Dutch Indies Memorial Strijen

This Memorial commemorates the people from Strijen who were killed in the Dutch Indies in World War II and the Indonesian Independence War thereafter.

The text on the monument is:

DUTCH INDIA 1941 - 1945
L.C. ROOSTER
01-05-1915 18-03-1943 IN BURMA

DUTCH INDIA 1945 - 1950
M.L. HORDIJK
01-09-1920 30-07-1948 IN DJAKARTA
C.P. VAN LEENEN
01-12-1919 04-06-1946 IN SURABAYA

"REMEMBER IN YOUR THOUGHTS
THAT THEY GIVE THEIR LIFE
AND FAR FROM THEIR RELATIONS
HAVE BEEN BURIED IN THE FOREIGN

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Source

  • Text: Fedor de Vries, Dick de Bruijne
  • Photos: Fedor de Vries (2,3), Dick de Bruijne (1,4,5)