Genealogie Janssen-de Groot » Gerrit Dijkhuizen (1894-1942)

Personal data Gerrit Dijkhuizen 


Household of Gerrit Dijkhuizen

He is married to Maria Vliegenthart.

They got married on December 16, 1914 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, he was 20 years old.Source 1


Notes about Gerrit Dijkhuizen

Het verlies van de Zaandam
Het passagiersschip Zaandam (kapitein Jacob Matthias Stamperius) vertrok uit Kaapstad (Zuid Afrika) op 21 oktober 1942 met een lading koper, bestemd voor New York (USA). Aan boord waren 112 bemanningsleden, 18 Amerikaanse kanonniers voor het boordgeschut en 169 passengers, waarvan de meeste overlevenden waren van de eerder getorpedeerde Amerikaanse schepen Coloradan, Examelia, Chickasaw City, Swiftsure and Firethorn. Om 16.17 uur op 2 november 1942 werd de alleenvarende Zaandam getroffen door een torpedo aan bakboordzijde in de machinekamer, afgevuurd door de Duitse onderzeeboot U-174 (Fregattenkapitän Ulrich Thilo), op ongeveer 300 mijl ten noorden van Cape Sao Roque (Brazilië). Om 16.28 uur trof een tweede torpedo het schip tussen ruim 2 en 3 aan bakboordzijde, waarna de Zaandam over de boeg wegzakte en binnen twee minuten zonk. De kapitein, 55 bemanningsleden (waaronder olieman Dijkhuizen), tien Amerikaanse kanonniers en 69 passagiers verloren daarbij het leven. De overlevenden verlieten het schip in drie reddingboten en twee vlotten. De U-174 kwam boven water en ondervroeg de inzittenden, waarna de onderzeeboot verdween. In de dagen daarna raakten de reddingboten en vlotten verspreid en verloren elkaar uit het oog. Op 7 november werden 106 overlevenden in twee reddingboten gevonden en gered door de Amerikaanse tanker Gulfstate. Twee slachtoffers overleden aan boord aan hun verwondingen, en een derde kwam later om in Belem (Brazilië), na eerst te zijn overgezet met drie andere gewonden op het Amerikaanse oorlogsschip USS Winslow (DD 359) die hen daar vervolgens aan wal bracht. Op 10 november bereikte de derde reddingboot, zwaar lekkend en beschadigd, de kust nabij Barreirinhas (Brazilië), waar later nog twee mannen stierven aan hun ontberingen en daar begraven werden. Drie overlevenden op een vlot werden pas opgepikt op 24 januari 1943 na 83 dagen (!) op zee te hebben doorgebracht. Het Amerikaanse patrouilleschip USS PC-576 vond ze, bezig met de begeleiding van het konvooi TB-3 van Trinidad naar Brazilië. Ze waren zwaar ondervoed en werden twee dagen met vloeibaar voedsel gevoed. Na aankomst in Pernambuco (Brazilië) verbleven ze nog zes weken in het ziekenhuis om aan te sterken.

Bron: Nationaal Archief Den Haag, archiefinventaris 2.12.30/2.16.31/2.16.32/2.16.40/2.16.54/2.06.084; Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie; Website Duitse onderzeeboten in WW2 www.uboat.netSource 3


Second World War victim


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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerrit Dijkhuizen

Dominicus Dijkhuizen
1809-1873
Klazina Harteveld
1821-1911

Gerrit Dijkhuizen
1894-1942

1914

Maria Vliegenthart
± 1894-????


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Sources

  1. Stadsarchief Rotterdam / Gemeente Archief Rotterdam
  2. Erelijst van gevallenen 1940-1945 / n.v.t.
  3. Oorlogsgravenstichting / Oorlogsgravenstichting

Historical events

Birthday January 15, 1894

  • The temperature on January 15, 1894 was about 4.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • February 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
    • March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
    • May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
    • June 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
    • September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
    • November 1 » Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.

Day of marriage December 16, 1914

  • The temperature on December 16, 1914 was between 5.7 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
    • September 3 » French composer Albéric Magnard is killed defending his estate against invading German soldiers.
    • November 1 » World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
    • November 1 » World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMSGood Hope and HMSMonmouth.
    • November 5 » World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
    • November 26 » HMS Bulwark was destroyed by a large internal explosion with the loss of 741 men near Sheerness.
    • December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.

Day of death November 2, 1942

  • The temperature on November 2, 1942 was between 6.1 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
    • March 9 » World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese completed their Dutch East Indies campaign.
    • April 3 » World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
    • June 8 » World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
    • June 23 » World War II: Germany's latest fighter aircraft, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
    • June 26 » The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
    • August 7 » World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.


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