Family tree Jan van Nielen (Carnisse ca 1600) » Bernardus van Berkel (1917-1942)
Personal data Bernardus van Berkel
- He was born on July 1, 1917 in Helvoirt (NB).
- Resident until 1942: Kaapstad (RSA).
- He died on October 29, 1942 in Atlantische Oceaan, he was 25 years old.
Bernardus was als dienstplichtige aan boord vanhet MS Abosso II dat op 29-10-1942 getorpedeerd werd.
- A child of Cornelis van Berkel and Nicolasina van NIELEN
- This information was last updated on July 21, 2020.
Household of Bernardus van Berkel
Second World War victim
- He is on the Honor Roll List
- He appears, according to Online Cemeteries, on a war memorial
- He appears on the Brabant casualties website
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Birthday July 1, 1917
- The temperature on July 1, 1917 was between 15.0 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
- January 11 » The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
- January 19 » Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
- March 26 » World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
- June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
- July 20 » World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
- November 24 » In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
Day of death October 29, 1942
- The temperature on October 29, 1942 was between 8.3 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. The average windspeed was 4 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.
- February 11 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
- May 31 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
- July 23 » Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
- July 25 » The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the German occupation.
- August 6 » Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
- November 13 » World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
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- 1936 » Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish journalist and theorist (b. 1874)
- 1939 » Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (b. 1864)
- 1941 » Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
- 1949 » George Gurdjieff, Armenian-French monk, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1872)
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T. J. Roos, "Family tree Jan van Nielen (Carnisse ca 1600)", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-jan-van-nielen/I7143.php : accessed April 25, 2024), "Bernardus van Berkel (1917-1942)".