Date of birth:

September 6th, 1927 (Utrecht, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

December 20th, 1948 (Solok/Sumatra, Indonesia)

Buried on:

Dutch War Cemetery Leuwigajah
Row: IV. Grave: 94.

Service number:

270906159

Nationality:

Dutch

Conscript soldier, Ost-Cie, 5th Battalion, Princess Irene Guard Regiment. Most likely enlisted at the Menno van Coehoorn Barracks in Arnhem and departed from Rotterdam on 26 November 1947 on the MS Kota-Inten bound for the Dutch East Indies, arriving in Padang, Sumatra, on 23 December of that year.

Killed in action on the second day of the “second police action”, on 20 December 1948 in the vicinity of Solok.

Adrianus van Hussen was initially buried in Solok and was transferred a few months later to the military cemetery in Padang (Sumatra). This military cemetery had to be closed by order of the Indonesian government and in 1962 he was reburied at the Leuwigajah military cemetery in Cimahi (Bandung).

* The entire battalion assembled at these barracks and departed for the Dutch East Indies on this date.

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