- SURNAME
Bakker
- FORENAME
Jacob
- UNIT
N Section SOE
- RANK
Stuurman
- NUMBER
- DATE OF DEATH
1944
- AGE
26
- GRAVESITE
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 1.5.1917 Batavia
sailor in civilian life
codename Cucumber II
w/t operator
dropped 27.10.1942
arrested 27.10.1942
believed to have been killed at Rawicz, Poland
age 26/27
award Bronzen Kruis 1953
The second picture is my uncle in his shipping uniform. The first is a picture in the UK.
On the 7th of April 1942 he helped to hijack a fishing trawler to bring 7 people to the UK. There he was screened by MI5 and included in the Dutch section of the Special Operations Executive. He was trained and dropped - together with his mate Jan Cornelis Dane - on the night of the 27/28 october 1942 above Holten in the Netherlands. Due to the Englandspiel treason they fell directly into the hands of the nazi’s and were emprisoned in Haaren. In november 1943 the prisoners were placed in the prison of Assen. By the end of april 1944 they were all deported to Rawicz. In may 1944 a large group was transported from Rawicz were deported to Mauthausen. Jacob Bakker was one of the eleven missed persons from Rawicz. It is not known where and how exactly he was killed.
Information from Janneke Donkerlo (Nephew)
DATE OF DEATH:
1944
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