Genealogie Naessens » Willem Hugo Naessens (1915-2005)

Persoonlijke gegevens Willem Hugo Naessens 

• Hij is geboren op 6 september 1915 in Leiden (Leyden), The Netherlands.
• Hij is overleden op 25 maart 2005 in Utrecht, hij was toen 89 jaar oud.
• Hij is gecremeerd op 30 maart 2005 in Crematorium en Uitvaartcentrum Noorderveld, Nieuwegein.
• Een kind van Louis Charles Willem Naessens en Francina Catharina Johanna Vreeburg

Gezin van Willem Hugo Naessens

(1) Hij had een relatie met Agathe ("Atie") Josephine Ossendorp.

Kind(eren):

1. Leo Carl Willem Naessens  1940- 
2. Agathe Eeke Beatrix Naessens  1941-2006 

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Catharina Anna Roelandschap.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 19 december 1946 te Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, hij was toen 31 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. (Niet openbaar)

(3) Hij is getrouwd met Bettina ("Betty") Nix.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1983, hij was toen 67 jaar oud.

Notities over Willem Hugo Naessens

Born 2.30 pm in the afternoon of September 6, 1915, in Haarlem.

Although Willem ("Boy") Naessens was not a practising Catholic, he and his two brothers as well as his two children from his first marriage were all baptised Catholics.

He had an English nanny who was responsible for him being called "Boy" because she only ever called him "the boy", never by name, until she left the family at the end of World War I. Even after she was gone, the family kept calling him "Boy" for the rest of his life!

Graduated from "Kennemer Lyceum" in 1934 - HBS-A diploma.
School voor Reserve Officieren Infanterie - Verbindingsdienst 1934/35
Appointed 2nd Lieutenant (Reserves) on January 1, 1936
Left Holland on October 28, 1936, as a passenger on board the m.s. Sibajak, to join the "Nederlands Indische Handelsbank" in Batavia, later also Makassar and Surabaya, Various npositions, including "procuratiehouder" in Makassar.
Appointed 1st Lieutenant (Reserves) on 1 January 1939. Royal Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL).
Subsequently joined N.V.Gebroeders Veth's Handelmaatschappij department: Marsman's General Exploration Company) in
Medan and Padang - period 1940 - 1942 .
Called up for military manoeuvres in Fort de Kock and Padang, as well as Sumatra's east coast.
Military service in Padang (Liaison Officer with Police departments in Padang, later head of 4th Section, and as such sent to the Territorial Commando Sumatra after the fall of Java. Operated on the eastern side of Lake Toba. Main job: building up military stocks for possible guerilla operations in mountains of Aceh.
Fell into Japanese hands at Kota Tjane, Aceh, on April 8, 1942, and sent to Burmah and Siam as a prisoner of war after a brief internment in the Unie kampung in Medan.

Various functions in various POW camps (among others, interpreter Thai and Japanese), kitchen and canteen manager until liberation in 1945. Then sent to "Legerorganisatie KNIL" in Bangkok. Promoted to captain (Infantry) in 1946.
Head of section "Verpleging (Voeding) Basis Commando Bandoeng" and B-Division (later also7 December Division).

Captured Japanese documents released by the American Government 20 years after World War II, showed that "Standing Orders for the Elimination of Allied POW's and civilians" were issued by the Japanese High Command in case the Japanese homeland was invaded by the Allied forces.
The Atomic bombs caused incredible sufferings to the Japanese people.
They also were instrumental in the survival of thousands of women and children interned in Japanese concentration camps.
The most telling document is shown with the following English translation:
The following translation was found in File 2015, designated as Document No. 2710, certified as Exhibit "O" in Doc. No.2687. The date indicated, "1 August xxxx" appears to have the year lined out with a pen. The year appears to be 1944 in the original typing. The number "2015" is penciled in the upper right corner. No other marks were noted on the sheet.
Document No. 2701
Page 1
(Certified as Exhibit "O" in Do. No. 2687)
From the Journal of the Taiwan POW Camp H.Q. in Taihoku, entry 1 August 19xx
_______________________________________________________
1. (Entries about money, promotions of Formosans at Branch camps, including promotion of Yo Yu-teku to 1st C1 Keibiin - 5 entries)
2. The following answer about the extreme measures for POW's was sent to the Chief of Staff of the 11th Unit (Formosa POW Security No. 10)
3. "Under the present situation if there were a mere explosion or fire a shelter for the time being could be had in nearby buildings such as the school, a warehouse, or the like. However, at such time as the situation became urgent and it be extremely important, the POW's will be concentrated and confined in their present location and under heavy guard the preparation for the final disposition will be made.
The time and method of the disposition are as follows:
(1) The Time.
Although the basic aim is to act under superior orders, Individual disposition may be made in the following circumstances:
•(a) When an uprising of large numbers cannot be suppressed without the use of firearms.
•(b) When escapees from the camp may turn into a hostile Fighting force.
(2) The Methods.
•(a) Whether they are destroyed individually or in groups, or however it is done, with mass bombing, poisonous smoke, poisons, drowning, decapitation, or what, dispose of them as the situation dictates.
•(b) In any case it is the aim not to allow the escape of a single one, to amilhilate [sic] them all, and not to leave any traces.
(3) To: The Commanding General
From: The Commanding General of Military Police

Demobilised on January 16, 1948 as a major, with honourable mention.

Immediately after leaving the Army, rejoined N.V. Gebroeders Veth's Handelsmaatschappij - first as head of the Jakarta office, then also "Hoofdagent" (in charge of all Veth offices in Indonesia).
In 1959, kept under house arrest by the Indonesian authorities. Wife and children had already been repatriated to Holland in mid-1958.

- N.V.Erven Lucas Bols - Director "Verkoopassociatie van de Verenigde Likeurstokerijen" (Sales Organisation of the United Liquor Distilleries)
Lucas Bols - parent company - Marketing-Director (1962 - 1979).
Early retirement - December 1979

1958 - 1980
Social functions (apart from Freemasons)

-Voorzitter Centrum Comite Nat.Feesten Gemeente Haarlem 1959 - 1967
- Penningmeester en Vice Voorzitter NoordHollandse Rij- en Jachtvereniging. Daarnaast Dressuur en springen jurylid en Wedstrijdleider
Echtgenote: Wedstrijdsecretaresse .
Periode 1959 - 1965 als bestuurlid en tot 1984 als jurylid.
- Secretaris en Bestuurslid van Fed.Paardrijden gehandicapten Den Haag. Periode 1965 - 1983
- Bestuurslid Stichting Kennemrland Paardrijden Gehandicapten Haarlem ca. 1965 - 1983
(Aantekening: Echtgenote: Mw.Naessens-Roelandschap medeoprichtster van beide organisaties )
-Regeringscommissaris bij examens voor Instructeur paardrijden gehandicapten.
-Initiatiefnemer en mede-oprichter Vakvereniging voor Hoger en Middelbaar personeel Erven Lucas Bols.
-Commissaris van Diverse Horecabedrijven w.o. Rest.Engels Rotterdam - Chalet Suisse enz.)
-Bestuurlid en voorzitter van Lions Club, Hoofddorp

Completed his secondary education (HBS - or the equivalent of high school in The Netherlands) in Haarlem in 1934. He first spent two years in the army as an infantry reserve officer in Kampen, and then joined the "Nederlands Indische Handelsbank" in Amsterdam, with the express aim of going to the Far East.
In 1936, aged 21, he did get the posting he was hoping for and took ship to Hong Kong where he was supposed to take up his first position in Asia. However, during a stopover in Singapore, he received a telegram that he was expected to go to Batavia (now Jakarta) instead, something that didn't worry him because at 21, it was all the same to him - Hong Kong, Batavia, it was all a big adventure.

In 1936-1939 he was stationed in Batavia and Surabaya, but was then "loaned" to Gebroeders Veth (Veth Brothers), an Amsterdam-based trading company with import and export interests in Indonesia, and gold and silver mines in Sumatra. He was first based in Padang, where the gathering storm clouds of war in Europe and the Far East led to him being called up again to serve in the army as a reserve officer. He also did stints in Medan and back in Padang.

He met Agathe Josephine Ossendorp at an AMVJ ("Algemene Maatschappij Voor Jongeren", the Dutch branch of the international Young Men's Christian Association or YMCA) dance evening in Batavia during this period. Willem Hugo Naessens and Atie Ossendorp were engaged on March 28, 1940.
A newspaper notice announcing the engagement had Atie living in Batavia at the time (Jalan Mampang 42) and Willem Hugo in Deli-Aceh, Sumatra, where he had already been called up for service in the Army. Their son Leo Carl Willem Naessens was born on 19 November 1940 in Medan and his daughter Agatha Eeke Beatrix was born in Padang on 16 November 1941.

However, it seems certain they did not in fact ever end up getting formally married. There never were any wedding announcements and while Atie did manage to send some baby photos of Leo to "Opa Epi" in Holland in early 1941, he never received any wedding photos - which she should have been able to send if there had been a wedding. After the war, there was no mention of there having been a formal marriage and the custody of Leo and Eeke went to their father, again without any mention in the official custody documentation of Boy and Atie having been legally married. Boy was in active service as a infantry lieutenant even before Leo's birth and it seems that in the turmoil of the last months before the start of the war, Boy and Atie simply did not get around to tying the knot officially! Also, Atie and her children were evacuated to Batavia soon after Eeke's birth. Boy was stationed near Medan somewhere in mid-1941and seems to have been effectively been separated from Atie and the children even before Eeke was born. There was no time for a wedding and this also explains why both were able to remarry after the war without any application on record to dissolve an earlier marriage. There certainly is no mention - or evidence - of such proceedings having taken place or been deemed necessary.

Early in 1942 when the Japanese advanced closer and closer on the Dutch East Indies, Atie took her two children to board the Nederland Line ship Pulau Tello to Batavia where she thought they would be safer. The ship left Padang's harbour in the midst of a Japanese bombing attack and it was left ablaze in mid-harbour as a result. The captain took the ship back into port and managed to put all his passengers back on shore. Atie and her children were eventually put on board a KPM ship soon after and lived in Batavia until the Japanese took control. Boy did in fact rush back to Padang from the north where he was stationed, in time to say goodbye, ending up watching the drama on board of the Pulau Tello from the shore. He and Atie could not know they would not see each other for close to four years - and when they did, the marriage was over.

Then aged 31, Boy remarried on December 19, 1946, in West Java, when he was a First Lieutenant in the Dutch East Indies Army, a few months before being promoted to Captain. His new wife was Catharina Anna Roelandschap, then aged 28, who had joined the Army as a nurse in Wolverhampton in England towards the end of the war and had been sent to Australia before being posted to Java. At the time of the marriage she was an "Adjutant Onderofficier" (Warrant Officer II) in the nursing corps of the Dutch East Indies Army. She took intense pride in her Army service for the rest of her life.

He retired from Bols in 1978.

He had lived with Meis in Veenendaal at Prins Willem Alexanderpark 201, but bought a new flat at Blauwgras 3/11, also in Veenendaal after her death and moved in on 28 January 2004. However, he never really fully moved into the Blauwgras flat and disappeared to Spain in February, only to collapse on the beach in Benidorm. Flown back to Holland, he spent two months in hospital in Ede and then went to live at "Het Oosten" home for the aged in Bilthoven (near Utrecht) in April 2004. Three months later, he moved to "Huize Transwijk" home for the aged in Utrecht in July 2004, where he died at 8pm on (Good Friday), March 25, 2005.

Weather on the day he died:
Mostly grey and cloudy, although 3.2 hours of weak sun.
Average temperature for the day: 10.4 deg Celsius, maximum on the day 13.2 deg. Celsius, minimum 8.1 deg. Celsius. Humidity 91 percent.
Wind 252°= WestSouthWest

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