Hij is getrouwd met Christina Polderman.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 29 juli 1927 te Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland , hij was toen 19 jaar oud.
[[Category:Killed in Action, The Netherlands, World War II]]
== Biography =='''Willem Vels''', born 19 October 1907Birth: [https://www.wiewaswie.nl/en/detail/27531323 Civil Registration Nederland, Zeeland, Vlissingen, Births 1907, # 43] in Vlissingen, son of [[Vels-23|Willem Vels]] and [[Vriens-58|Dorothea Vriens]]. He passed away 13 May 1940Death: [https://www.wiewaswie.nl/en/detail/27782714 Civil Registration Nederland, Noord-Holland, Velsen, Deaths 1940, # 230] in Velsen, Noord-Holland. His grave is on the Court of Honor at the cemetery in Huisduinen[https://oorlogsgravenstichting.nl/persoon/158532/willem-vels Oorlogsgravenstichting]
Willem Vels married 29 July 1927Marriage: [https://www.wiewaswie.nl/en/detail/29229268 Civil Registration Nederland, Zeeland, Middelburg, Marriages 1927, # 72] in Middelburg with [[Polderman-310|Christina Polderman]]
Willem Vels was a corporal machinist of the Royal Netherlands Navy in the May days of 1940 on board the minesweeper HM M2 when the ship ran on a German magnetic mine. The ship sank immediately and Willem Vels was one of the victims[https://oorlogsslachtoffersijmond.nl/persoon/219/willem-vels Oorlogsslachtoffers IJmond]
== Sources ==
Externe link: https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Vels-41
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