Locations
961 to 984 of 5438 results
-
Scrokkia Pizza
Scrokkia Pizza
from your location
-
Monument Melkstaking Tweede wereldoorlog
Monument Melkstaking Tweede wereldoorlog
from your location
-
Sint-Nicolaastoren Firdgum
Sint-Nicolaastoren Firdgum
from your location
-
B & B Aan De Gracht
B & B Aan De Gracht
from your location
-
Camping Zwanenburg
Camping Zwanenburg
from your location
-
Alde Feanen - Jan Durkspolder - Vogelkijkhut
Alde Feanen - Jan Durkspolder - Vogelkijkhut
from your location
-
Tiepelsteeg
Tiepelsteeg
from your location
-
Grand Café De Brass
Grand Café De Brass
from your location
-
Boscamping Appelscha
Boscamping Appelscha
from your location
-
Surfana Vlieland
Surfana Vlieland
from your location
-
Camping it Krúswetter - Ingerichte caravan
Camping it Krúswetter - Ingerichte caravan
Direct boekbaar
from your location
-
Nije Sylpream Romsicht
Nije Sylpream Romsicht
from your location
-
Ambush at Oldeholtpade
Ambush at Oldeholtpade
On 12 April, the bridge over the Tjonger in Mildam fell into the hands of the Royal Canadian Dragoons reconnaissance regiment. Because the occupier had blown up many other bridges, the Canadians attached great importance to preserving this bridge for the crossing of other Canadian units. That is why dozens of armoured cars, mobile artillery guns and numerous other vehicles were sent to Mildam that day to reinforce the bridgehead over the Tjonger.
In one of those armoured cars, a Staghound, was 24-year-old Trooper Wilfred Robert George Berry from Ontario. The young Canadian had volunteered for military service in Europe. And had already fought with the Royal Canadian Dragoons in Italy. At the end of February 1945, they were transferred to Northwest Europe.
For Berry, the war ended in Friesland. In Oldeholtpade, on the road to Wolvega, his vehicle drove into an ambush along with at least one other Staghound. In the vicinity of a broken-down German car, German soldiers had hidden with Panzerfausts. The Panzerfaust was a very powerful and easy-to-use anti-tank weapon. The first shot missed, but the second projectile hit the front Staghound, on the side where driver Wilfred Berry was sitting at the time.2 The Staghound went off the road and overturned. The three other crew members got injured, but were able to leave the vehicle and took cover behind the second Staghound. One of them stated:
"[…]Flames burst through the turret, where the officer and I were half in and half out of the hatches. Any skin surface not covered was burned and the flames badly singed our eyebrows, eyelashes, moustaches and hands, sending me and the officer both wounded to the field hospital."3
Immediately after the first Staghound was hit, the second Staghound opened fire on the Germans. Seriously injured, Wilfred Berry remained in the vehicle. After about fifteen minutes of shooting back and forth, the other Staghounds retreated towards Oldeberkoop. The exact reason for this remains unclear. Berry was already dying and was briefly cared for by the elderly Andriesje Dekker-Oosterhof in the vehicle when the shooting had stopped. The tragedy had unfolded right in front of her house. He died in the wreck shortly afterwards.
Berry's remains were eventually transferred to the farm on "De Bult" in Oldeberkoop and buried there. After the war he would be reburied at the Canadian war cemetery in Holten. The other crew members were eventually able to return to their units after receiving medical treatment. The commander only had burns on his face.
The event made a deep impression on the inhabitants of Oldeholtpade. In 1945, a monument to Berry was erected. And in 1965, a street was named in his honour.
from your location
-
-
De Walrus
De Walrus
from your location
-
The bombing of Terherne lock
The bombing of Terherne lock
On 11 November 1944, pilots of the Royal Canadian Air Force, based at Welschap airfield near Eindhoven, were ordered to bomb the lock at Terherne in two groups. The reason for the bombardment of Terherne lock was to restrict (German) transport movements. The lock complex was situated on the main shipping route from Germany via Groningen to the Randstad, along which the Germans transported goods and military equipment.
After the railway strike in September had already disrupted rail transport considerably, actions against shipping traffic followed in the months thereafter. The southern part of the country may have been liberated, but fierce battles were still to be fought in the other parts.
Such was the case on that 11th November just after nine o'clock in the morning when the two groups of Hawker Typhoon fighter-bombers took off shortly after each other from Eindhoven for their mission. Around 10:00, the lock at Terherne was bombed from the north for the first time and then again around 10:30.
The consequences were huge for the people living on the lock. The wives of both lock keepers, a one-year-old baby and a German soldier were killed. Also, pilot John Gordon Fraser's aircraft was damaged to such extent that he had to make an emergency landing at St. Johannesga. Although the bombing resulted in the northern passageway being deactivated and no longer usable, the southern passageway remained open and could still be used.
Today, a boathouse for the State yacht of the province of Friesland has been built over the southern passage. A new building, that serves as a guest house for the province, was put up on the site of the lock keeper's house on the south side.
A monument has been erected on the northern pier in memory of those who perished at the lock. This monument was unveiled on 10 November 1985 by Hattum Hoekstra, son of 1st lock keeper Wiemer and Tietje Hoekstra. Since then, the commemoration of the dead in Terherne has always taken place at the old lock, and the children of primary school 'It Kampke' have adopted the monument.
from your location
-
-
De Sperwer
De Sperwer
from your location
-
Veerpont Bep Glasius (Stavoren)
Veerpont Bep Glasius (Stavoren)
from your location
-
Gedicht: Iesbaene Nooitgedacht | Edwin de Groot
from your location
-
Bibliotheek Jubbega
Bibliotheek Jubbega
from your location
-
Molen de Eendracht Kimswerd
Molen de Eendracht Kimswerd
from your location
-
Gestrand
Gestrand
from your location
-
Minicamping Lyts mar Smûk
Minicamping Lyts mar Smûk
from your location
-
Bed and Breakfast Huisje onder de Linden
Bed and Breakfast Huisje onder de Linden
from your location
-
Lighthouse Harlingen
Lighthouse Harlingen
from your location
