Born Venlo, Holland. He specialised in the construction of forts, building Antwerp's walls and satellite forts in 1860-4, and was the first in Europe to introduce armour-plated forts.
War dead, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Netherlands
A flying officer fighting in the British Royal Air Force. On 19 January 1943 he carried out a solo attack on the Gestapo head office in Brussels. He died in aerial combat 7 months later. On the ...
War dead, Armed Forces, War Memorial WW2
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Died: 1/4/1962, 63 years ago
Person, Journalism & Publishing, Literature, Theatre
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