This memorial page is dedicated to Wilhelmus Johannes Isbouts, 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.

 

Wilhelmus Johannes Isbouts

Name: Isbouts
First names: Wilhelmus Johannes
Nickname: –
Date of birth: 31 March 1924
Place of birth: Vlierden
Residence: 372 Vloeieind, Vlierden
Rank / Occupation: Farmer
Identity tag: –
Unit: –
Date of death: 14 October 1944
Place of death: Eindhoven
Cause of death: as a result of a landmine explosion
Cemetery: Vlierden General Cemetery
Memorial site: Memorial cross in Vlierden
: War memorial at St Willibrord’s Church in Vlierden

 

Additional information

Son of Hendrikus Isbouts and Mathea Antonia Raijmakers.

After the fodder beets, intended as animal feed, had been harvested, they were stored in a silo. Immediately after unloading the first load of fodder beets, the lorry drove over a landmine left behind by the Germans.

As a result of this tragic accident, on Wednesday 11 October 1944, his brother Adrianus Petrus Isbouts and his nine-year-old nephew Antonius Josephus Mennen were also fatally injured; Wilhelmus Johannes Isbouts later died of his injuries.

Antonius Josephus Mennen had previously been taken by his parents to the Isbouts family because heavy fighting was taking place in Liessel. At the farmstead named ‘Ruth’, in the hamlet of the same name, Ruth, near Vlierden, things were relatively quiet.

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