Jan Berkenbosch
Nationality - Dutch
UNIT: KNIL from 1939 – 1949 (Royal Dutch Indisch Army) Rank: Brigadier
Date and place of birth: 12 August 1920, Hoogeveen, The Netherlands
Deseased: 18 July 1995, Tegelen, The Netherlands
POW Registration card - click here
Submitted by
son, Jan Berkenbosch Jr. who adds, "My father was one of the POW's
who was kept barely alive to
work for the Japanese in Burma
and at the end of the war in Omuta camp 17
were he was liberated in
1945".