This memorial page is dedicated to Willem Gerard Hage, 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.

 

Name: Hage
First names: Willem Gerard
Nickname: –
Date of birth: 4 April 1903
Place of birth: Deurne
Residence: –
Rank / Occupation: Sergeant in the Infantry
Identity tag: Service Record No. 126303 / Camp Number P 84058
Unit: Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL)
Date of death: 22 June 1945
Place of death: Palembang, prisoner-of-war camp (Indonesia)
Cause of death: as a result of malnutrition
Cemetery: Dutch war cemetery at Pandu, Bandung (Indonesia)
Memorial site: –



Additional information
Grave location: Section IV / Grave 309

Son of Willem Karel Christiaan Hage and Nora Was.

Willem Gerard Hage fell ill on 1 July 1945, as a result of which he was admitted to the camp hospital on 10 June 1945; he died there at approximately 05:20 from the effects of malnutrition. His remains were buried in the cemetery of the camp hospital within the prisoner-of-war camp, from where he was reburied after the war at the Dutch war cemetery in Pandu.

Japanese Internment Card
Japanse Interneringskaart

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