Date of birth:

May 30th, 1927 (Ouderkerk ad IJssel/Zuid-Hollend, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

April 6th, 1949 (Solok/Sumatra, Indonesia)

Buried on:

Dutch War Cemetery Leuwigajah
Row: V. Grave: 162.

Service number:

270530101

Nationality:

Dutch

Conscripted soldier 1st class, 3rd Company, 5th Battalion, Princess Irene Guard Regiment. Married. Most likely enlisted at the Menno van Coehoorn Barracks in Arnhem and departed from Rotterdam on 26 November 1947 aboard the MS. Kota-Inten from Rotterdam and arrived in Padang, Sumatra, on 23 December of that year.

Killed during a patrol in the vicinity of Solok.

Machiel de Ridder 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). His name appears on the Indies Monument in Nieuwerkerk ad IJssel.

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

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