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Personal data Johan Jacob Bour 

  • He was born on December 18, 1910 in Schaesberg.
  • He died on May 10, 1940 in Dordrecht, he was 29 years old.
    Gesneuveld te Dordrecht, in de opstelling bij de Dokhaven
    85 Pel LuMi stond vlak naast de hefbrug voor de Spoorweghaven (Dokhaven), op korte afstand van de verkeersbrug. De batterij werd daar in de ochtend aangevallen door parachutisten van het 3e Peloton van 3./FJR.1, die in Zwijndrecht waren geland en de brug hadden ingenomen. Via de trappenhuizen kwamen parachutisten naar beneden en wisten onder dekking van kameraden op de brug die het peloton in dekking dwongen over de hefbrug te komen en van korte afstand de bezetting van de vier posities met handgranaten tot overgave te dwingen. Drie leden van het peloton verloren het leven bij dit korte gevecht. De soldaten Bour, De Lang en Wildeboer.
  • Death registration on September 27, 1940.Source 1
  • He is buried in Essenhof Dordrecht.
  • This information was last updated on March 22, 2021.

Household of Johan Jacob Bour

He is married to Maria Catharina Bemelen.

They got married on May 16, 1935 at Heerlen, he was 24 years old.Source 2


Second World War victim


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Sources

  1. Overlijdensakten Dordrecht 1940, Dordrecht, archief 256, inventaris­num­mer 330, aktenummer 701
  2. BS Heerlen Huwelijksaktenr.134, Jaar 1935

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Birthday December 18, 1910

  • The temperature on December 18, 1910 was between 1.9 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
    • March 28 » Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
    • April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
    • June 19 » The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
    • July 24 » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
    • August 22 » Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
    • September 26 » Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.

Day of death May 10, 1940

  • The temperature on May 10, 1940 was between 6.0 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
    • June 10 » World War II: The Kingdom of Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
    • June 14 » Seven hundred twenty-eight Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
    • June 26 » World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
    • October 15 » President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.
    • October 16 » Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
    • November 2 » World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.


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