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Personal data Hendricus Hermanus Furstner 

  • He was born on August 26, 1911 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland.Source 1
    Aktenummer: 9146
  • Birth registration on August 29, 1911.Source 2
  • Occupations:
    • Eerste Luitenant.
    • Expeditiebediende.
  • Facts:
    • (vermelding) Slachtoffer Tweede Wereldoorlog.
    • (Militaire dienst) from July 20, 1931 till November 14, 1931 .Source 3
      5e Regiment Infanterie, 1e ploeg, opleiding officier
      5 oktober 1931 Vaandrig
  • Resident starting August 26, 1911: Alexander Boersstraat 30, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland.
    Geboren
  • He died on October 9, 1943 in Songkurai, Kanchanaburi, Thailand, he was 32 years old.
    Oorlogsgravenstichting:
    Hendricus Hermanus Furstner 1911-1943
    Oorlogsslachtoffer
    Is 32 jaar geworden
    Geboren op 26 augustus 1911 te Amsterdam
    Overleden op 9 oktober 1943 te 134 KM van Nike
    Rang: Elt.
    Militair onderdeel: KNIL.

    Arnhem, BIRMA-SIAM en Pakan Baroe Spoorwegen monument
    Velperweg 147, 6824MB, Arnhem, Gelderland

    In totaal heeft de spoorweg het leven van bijna 100.000 mensen gekost. Vanaf het begin van de werkzaamheden in 1942 tot aan de bevrijding in augustus 1945 stierven per dag gemiddeld 75 arbeiders. Niet voor niets zegt men dat elke dwarsligger van deze 415 kilometer lange spoorweg een dode symboliseert.

    Het aantal Nederlandse oorlogsslachtoffers op de erevelden bedraagt:
    Thanbyuzayat 621
    Kanchanaburi 1896
    Chungkai 313

    Op 20 augustus 2005 is achter het monument een namenwand onthuld. Op deze wand staan de namen van de krijgsgevangenen van het KNIL die omkwamen bij de aanleg van de Birma Siam Spoorweg.

    1E LUITENANT: HENDRICUS HERMANUS FURSTNER
    Regiment & Unit/Ship: Netherlands Army, KNIL.
    Date of Death: Died 09 October 1943
    Buried or commemorated at: THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY
    Plot D1 Row A Grave 7.
    Myanmar
  • He is buried in Myanmar (THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY).
  • A child of Henricus Hermanus Furstner and Maria Geertruida van Steenbergen
  • This information was last updated on November 11, 2025.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Hendricus Hermanus Furstner

Jacob Johannes van Steenbergen
1850-1908
Elisabeth Nanette Stork
1851-1931

Hendricus Hermanus Furstner
1911-1943


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    Historical events

    Birthday August 26, 1911

    • The temperature on August 26, 1911 was between 13.0 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
      • March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
      • May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
      • May 30 » At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
      • June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
      • June 22 » Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.
      • October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.

    Day of death October 9, 1943

    • The temperature on October 9, 1943 was between 4.4 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
      • January 15 » World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
      • March 4 » World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, begins. It ends on 6 March with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion and the liberation of the town of Grevena.
      • April 19 » Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.
      • August 2 » The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
      • August 17 » World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission.
      • November 3 » World War II: Five hundred aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany.
    

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    Source: Wikipedia

    Source: Wikipedia


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