Date of birth:

November 27th, 1927 (Monster/Zuid-Holland, Nederland)

Date of death:

March 1st, 1949 (Djokja/Java, Indonesia)

Buried on:

Dutch War Cemetery Candi
Row: C. Grave: 49.

Service number:

271127119

Nationality:

Dutch

Conscript Soldier First Class, 2nd Company, 5th Battalion, Princess Irene Guard Regiment. Reported for duty at the Menno van Coehoorn Barracks in Arnhem. Departed from Rotterdam on 26 November 1947 on the MS Kota-Inten bound for the Dutch East Indies.

With the exception of the 2nd Company, the 5th Battalion GRPI was deployed on Sumatra. However, the 2nd Company, to which Van der Hout belonged, was deployed as reinforcement for the 5th Regiment Stoottroepen on Java and remained there throughout the conflict. Gerrit van der Hout was killed in action on 1 March 1949 near Yogyakarta.

He was buried in Yogyakarta. Following a request from the Indonesian government to reduce the 22 Dutch military cemeteries throughout the archipelago to five, all located on Java, he was later reburied at the Candi military cemetery in Semarang.

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