Decoration for Henk Duinhoven
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picture: Gerard Burgers
Translation from Newspaper "The Gelderlander", Sunday 21st September 2008
"Oosterbeek/Bemmel - Henk
Duinhoven from Bemmel receives his decoration in the Old Church in Oosterbeek
from Mayor
Harry De Vries (council Lingewaard).
Saturday afternoon: Duinhoven
is now a Knight in the Order of Orange Nassau.
The citizen of Bemmel is specialist on the
Battle of Arnhem 1944.
The ceremony was held in Oosterbeek because Duinhoven belongs to a group of
guides who ensure that the Old Church, which
was one of the supporting points at the time, remains open. A number of times,
Henk held memorial services in the church for
veterans and families. Furthermore, he took the initiative in 1989 for a monument
to the British and Canadian engineers who, in
1944, rescued a whole division from across the Rhine river with a heroic action.
The monument is placed at the Rhine dyke in Driel.
Duinhoven also gives many lectures for young military audiences."
Monument at Rhine Dyke, Driel -
The Netherlands
Henk, who enthusiastically offered
his expert services for the Foundation during Operation Torch, is rightly acknowledged
with
this high Dutch decoration for everything he means and has meant for our liberators,
their family members and the Dutch people.
CONGRATULATIONS and ALL THE BEST TO YOU, Henk!