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Pancake train
Pancake train
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Camping Flapper
Camping Flapper
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Monument Tjerk Hiddes de Vries
Monument Tjerk Hiddes de Vries
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Welgelegen - Vakantiehut
Welgelegen - Vakantiehut
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Logementen Jannum
Logementen Jannum
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Varen met Sil
Varen met Sil
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Tusken de Marren - Vakantiehuis Sneekermeer 4p
Tusken de Marren - Vakantiehuis Sneekermeer 4p
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Terherne
Terherne
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Air Surveillance Tower
Air Surveillance Tower
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Eysinga State - Camperplaats
Eysinga State - Camperplaats
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Eysinga State - Natuurkampeerplaats
Eysinga State - Natuurkampeerplaats
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Zijda Yachting - Archipel Elite
Zijda Yachting - Archipel Elite
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WestCord WTC Hotel - City View Kamer
WestCord WTC Hotel - City View Kamer
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Vakantiewoning De Reiger
Vakantiewoning De Reiger
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Pucks Pluktuin l flower-picking garden
Pucks Pluktuin l flower-picking garden
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Friese Meren Villa's - Premium XL Watervilla (pc19)
Friese Meren Villa's - Premium XL Watervilla (pc19)
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War Memorial Hieslum
War Memorial Hieslum
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Zijda Yachting - Mariska Elite
Zijda Yachting - Mariska Elite
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Groepsaccommodatie De Morra
Groepsaccommodatie De Morra
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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.
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Vakantiewoning Wieldyk
Vakantiewoning Wieldyk
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Friesland Boating Yachtcharter - Pedro Skiron The Bee
Friesland Boating Yachtcharter - Pedro Skiron The Bee
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Swan Hunting in Wijnaldum
Swan Hunting in Wijnaldum
Fishing once took place here along the Ried, and swans were kept in the surrounding wetlands. The exclusive right to hunt swans was a valuable privilege and provided an important source of income for centuries.
In the past, the Frisians fought the sea by building dams. As a result, a marshy area developed north of Wijnaldum. The former tidal channel known as the Ried formed its southern boundary.
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Museum Sloten
Museum Sloten
