He is married to P.J.H.V. van de Broek.
They got married in the year 1948, he was 36 years old.
Cornelis (Kees) VAN DAM celebrated his 100th birthday on 25 March 2011 with a tandem parachute jump, making him the oldest person in South Africa to do so. It was his first jump. Robert VERNER of the Pretoria Parachute Club was his instructor. Cornelis' son, Chris, had a hot air ballon ride in mind for the century celebration, but his father said it was too slow for him. Cornelis was born on 25 March 1911 in Vlaardinger, the Netherlands. In 1933 he joined the Royal Dutch-Indian Legion and the following year left by steamship for Indonesia. He worked in the topographic services, making maps. In his spare time, he was a keen photographer. In 1942 the Japanese attached Indonesia and he was taken prisoner. He was taken to Singapore, where the Japanese used his skills to lay out a railway line. Five years later he returned to the Netherlands, where he met his wife, Nellie PENNING. Nellie had married in Indonesia and Cornelis was the wedding photographer. Her husband died early in the war, leaving her a widowed mother of three children. Cornelis and Nellie were married in 1948. Cornelis retired at the age of 45, and in 1958 immigrated to South Africa with his family. He bought a house in Lyttelton, Centurion, and worked as a photographer for the South African Air Force at Swartkop until 1976, when he finally retired.
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