Date of birth:

September 4th, 1926 (the Hague/Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

January 11th, 1948 (Padang/Sumatra, Indonesië)

Buried on:

Dutch War Cemetery Leuwigajah
Row: V. Grave: 197.

Service number:

260904206

Nationality:

Dutch

Conscript soldier, 4th Company, 5th Battalion, Princess Irene Guard Regiment. Student in Wageningen. Most likely enlisted at the Menno van Coehoorn Barracks in Arnhem and departed from Rotterdam on 26 November 1947 on the MS. Kota-Inten from Rotterdam and arrived in Padang, Sumatra, on 23 December of that year.

Killed in an accident with a submachine gun at the Soengei Beramas post. He was the first member of the battalion to be killed in action.

Frits Penters is buried in the military cemetery in Padang (Sumatra). This cemetery had to be closed in 1962 by order of the Indonesian government, and he was reburied in the Leuwigajah military cemetery in Cimahi (Bandung). His name appears on the Indies Monument on Nudestraat in Wageningen.

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

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