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Baatsen, Arnoldus Albert

    Date of birth:
    April 11th, 1918 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    Date of death:
    September 7th, 1944 (KZ Mauthausen, Austria)
    Buried on:
    Memorial and Grave Victims Englandspiel
    Nationality:
    Dutch (1815-present, Kingdom)

    Biography

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    Period:
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Rank:
    Tijdelijk aangesteld dienstplichtig sergeant
    Unit:
    N Section, Special Operations Executive (SOE), British Government
    Awarded on:
    May 2nd, 1953
    "He has distinguished himself as a member of a secret intelligence agency that has dispatched him in the years between 1940 and 1945 to enemy held territory where he had to perform life threatening actions under extremely trying circumstances that ultimately led to his death by enemy counter-action."

    Royal decree no. 33 (posthumously awarded)
    Bronzen Kruis (BK)

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