This memorial page is dedicated to Louis Bos, one of more than 725 war victims connected to the municipality of Deurne documented by Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers. The municipality of Deurne and the surrounding villages of Liessel, Vlierden, Helenaveen, Neerkant and Zeilberg were liberated in the autumn of 1944 during heavy fighting. Victims fell on all sides: Allied soldiers from countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and New Zealand, and German soldiers.

But the archive covers more than just the combat victims on Deurne soil. Residents of Deurne who lost their lives elsewhere are also commemorated: civilians who were murdered in concentration camps, forced labourers who died in Germany, people who were executed or succumbed to the effects of persecution and oppression. In addition, residents of Deurne who entered German military service and were killed elsewhere are also included.

Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers has been documenting the story of all these people since 1995, without distinction of nationality, side or background. The goal is to give every person a name and a face, and to keep their memory alive.

 

Louis Bos

Name: Bos
First names: Louis
Nickname: Lodje
Date of birth: 10 November 1924
Place of birth: Helden
Residence: in Helden
Rank / Occupation: Member of the N.B.S.
Identity tag: –
Unit: Dutch Internal Armed Forces
Date of death: 25 September 1944
Place of death: Neerkant
Cause of death: as a result of a gunshot wound to the abdomen / collapse of a façade
Cemetery: Dutch War Cemetery, Loenen
Memorial site: War memorial in Neerkant
: War memorial in Panningen

Additional information

Grave location: Section E / Grave 1030

Son of Wilhelmus Bos and Anna Elisabeth Wolters.

Louis Bos from Helden was in hiding in Neerkant with his uncle Bert Janssen (a member of the Dutch Internal Forces) and was shot whilst fleeing from the Germans.

Memorial card
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Death register
Overlijdensregister

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