Date of birth:

June 9th, 1917 (Tietjerksteradeel/Friesland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

September 18th, 1943 (Kuiye Camp, Thailand)

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Cemetery Kanchanaburi

Service number:

95205

Nationality:

Dutch

Klaas van Wal was stationed in Bandoeng with the cavalry KNIL and served in Java, in the Dutch East Indies Campaign. He was captured by the Japanese Army in Bandoeng on 8 March 1942 and made a Prisoner Of War. He was transferred to the Burma-Thailand Railway where he died in the Kuiye POW Camp on 18 September 1943.

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Soldaat der Cavalerie

Unit:

Koninklijk Nederlandsch-Indisch Leger

Awarded on:

July 6th, 2017

Posthumously awarded
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Presented on August 25,2017 by Lieutenant-Colonel (RNLAF) Christa Oppers-Beumers defence Military Naval and Air Attache of the embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ottawa Canada.

• Photo 1: Thea Bisenberger
• - Award certificate.
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