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Personal data Kars Geert Kroeze 


Household of Kars Geert Kroeze

He is married to (Not public).

They got married on April 18, 1942, he was 40 years old.


Child(ren):

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Notes about Kars Geert Kroeze

Kars emigreerde naar Canada, provincie Manitoba samen met zijn latere
zwager Jacob Veninga.
In Canada werkten zij op verschillende boerderijen in Zuid-Manitoba.
Kars werkte voor de familie Bland op hun boerderij in Melita.
Kars die geen Engels sprak, leerde dit van de Heer en Mevrouw Bland, die
veel geduld met hem hadden en hem de woorden net zo lang lieten
totdat zij goed waren. Hij leerde vrijwel accentloos Engels spreken, en
roemde daar altijd de familie Bland voor.
Later werkte hij als houthakker bij de Hudson Bay Junction aan de
oever.
Het was in een lange koude winter en mijlen van de bewoonde wereld,
dat hij het voorjaar daarop appendicitus kreeg, hij werd toen met de
naar Portage het 1a Prairie Hospitaal gestuurd.
De dokter aldaar realiseerde zich dat Kars niemand kende en vertelde dat
een andere Hollander zou sturen om hem te bezoeken.
Later op de avond kwam Andrew Denbeer kars bezoeken, dit was de start van
levenslange vriendschap.
Toen de Duitsers in 1940 Holland binnenvielen,gingen Andy en Kars
naar Winninpeg om zich bij het leger aan te melden.
De opleidingsofficier stuurde hen naar de Royal Canadien Engineers, omdat
beiden veel ervaring hadden met zware boerderij machines en bulldozers.
De meeste tijd in Europa besteden zij aan het geschikt maken van land,
landingsbanen en aan het maken van wegen en bruggen.
Hun militaire opleiding kregen zij in Dundurn,Sask en in de herfst
verlieten ze Engeland.
Kars ontmoette Peggy in Jan 1941 en zij trouwden op 18 april 1942
Na de oorlog werkte hij als brandweerman bij Fort Osborne Barracks .
(Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Door studie verkreeg hij zijn derde en tweede klas certificaten van
en hij werd zelfs chef technicus bij de tweede afdeling van Fort Osborne.
Zijn leven was gecentreerd rond zijn familie, ze hebben dan ook een mooie
samen gehad, met camperen en reizen in de zomer en bobsleeen en
in de lange winters.
In july 1978 stierf hij aan maagkanker.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Kars Geert Kroeze

Kars Kroeze
1820-1904
Freerkien Hebels
1830-1897
Teunis Kroeze
1870-1930

Kars Geert Kroeze
1901-1978

1942
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    Historical events

    Birthday July 23, 1901

    • The temperature on July 23, 1901 was between 10.6 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (49%). 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, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1901: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
      • February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
      • February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
      • August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
      • August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
      • September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
      • September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.

    Day of marriage April 18, 1942

    • The temperature on April 18, 1942 was between 8.0 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
      • May 27 » World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
      • August 24 » World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk, with the loss of seven officers and 113 crewmen. The US carrier USSEnterprise is heavily damaged.
      • September 15 » World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USSWasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal.
      • September 23 » World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.
      • October 26 » World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier is sunk and another carrier is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged.
      • November 4 » World War II: Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel begins a retreat of his forces after a costly defeat during the Second Battle of El Alamein. The retreat would ultimately last five months.
    

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