Date of birth:

December 18th, 1923 (Smilde/Drenthe, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

April 23rd, 1945 (Hamburg, Germany)

Buried on:

Dutch War Graves Hoogersmilde

Nationality:

Dutch

A land labourer by profession, son of Jan Sluiter and Klaasje Bruggink. Bertus Sluiter was called up for the Arbeitseinsatz in the summer of 1943 and was forced to leave for Germany. On 23 April 1945, the tugboat on which he was working ran aground on a wreck and sank. Just a few weeks before liberation, Bertus Sluiter drowned in the port of Hamburg. He was initially buried at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, but in the early 1950s, his body was transferred to the Netherlands through the intervention of the War Graves Foundation and reburied in Smilde.

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