Date of birth:

October 21st, 1910 (Appingedam/Groningen, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

March 8th, 1945 (Woeste Hoeve/Gelderland, The Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch War Graves D.R. Cemetery
Plot: E. Row: 7. Grave: 127.

Nationality:

Dutch

Tedo Hartlief completed his navigating and radio operator training at the Terschelling Maritime Academy. Before the war, he served as a second mate and radio operator on tankers of the Curaçao Shipping Company between Willemstad and Venezuela. In 1937, he married Jennie Maria de Heer.

At the end of 1939, he returned to Terschelling to obtain his first rank, which he achieved in June 1940. Due to the German occupation, he was unable to return to Curaçao. He lived on Terschelling until 1942 and then worked at the evacuation office in Groningen, while his family remained on the island.

In 1943, Hartlief's brother-in-law involved him in the Packard Group, a resistance organization that transmitted weather and intelligence data to the Royal Air Force via the Beatrix-MET radio transmitter in Groningen. This information was crucial for Allied bombing raids.

On October 9th, 1944, the German Sicherheitsdienst discovered the transmitter; Hartlief was arrested and imprisoned in the Scholtenshuis in Groningen. On March 8th, 1945, he was executed, along with 116 others, at Woeste Hoeve in retaliation for the attack on SS General Rauter.

After the war, his body was identified and eventually reburied on Terschelling on June 21st, 1945.

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

January 2nd, 1950

Recommendation:
"He distinguished himself through courageous conduct against the enemy by making himself available in November 1943 as an observer-radio operator at a meteorological observation radio and transmission station for a key military intelligence group in the occupied Netherlands. As such, he recorded, encoded, and transmitted his weather data by radiotelegraph, initially daily and later every other day, from the following December onward.
He also transmitted numerous important organizational and military data during October and early November 1944, until he was located and captured by the enemy during such a transmission in early November 1944 and executed in early March 1945.
By performing these actions, he rendered significant services to the Allied war effort and the Dutch government."

Royal Decree Nr. 9.
2821st Award.

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Dutch War Graves D.R. Cemetery

Hoorn (Terschelling) - Friesland