Photo was taken in 1942 in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
Notice the old machine guns from World War 1 that the Dutch troops were given to train with.
Posted by Scott Draycott on Fri 10 Feb 2023 14:56:54 EST
This picture was taken in Stratford, Ontario, Canada in 1942.
Dutch volunteers who were living abroad when Holland was invaded by the NAZIS, were told to report to Canada for training to liberate Holland. They were stationed in a building which was the former McLagan Furniture Factory located on 93 Trinity Street in Stratford, Ontario which was transformed into the Princess Juliana Barracks. The Dutch troops were trained here from January 1941 until Autumn 1942 when many left for England to be assigned to different military units.
Posted by Scott Draycott on Fri 10 Feb 2023 14:52:41 EST
On Board the Troopship RMS. Alcantara. Returning from Bombay to Liverpool. July 18, 1944.
Posted by Scott Draycott on Fri 10 Feb 2023 14:42:30 EST
Kedgaon, India. March, 1944.
Posted by Scott Draycott on Fri 10 Feb 2023 13:22:13 EST
Back From The Jungle
Kedgaon, India. March, 1944.
Posted by Scott Draycott on Fri 10 Feb 2023 13:19:57 EST
Back From The Jungle
Poona, India. January, 15, 1944.
Posted by Scott Draycott on Fri 10 Feb 2023 13:17:56 EST
Kedgaon, India. February, 1944
Posted by Scott Draycott on Fri 10 Feb 2023 13:12:28 EST
Londa Station, Karnataka, India 15 January 1944
Posted by Scott Draycott on Fri 10 Feb 2023 13:07:10 EST
Derek Page
Soldier third from the left with the moustache is Lt. Derek Gordon Page. He subsequently served in India with the Gurkhas going through Burma to Indonesia. Here at the end of the war he met a Dutch lady who he married back in the Netherlands. Captain Page died in February 1979.
Source: Richard Page - his son.
Posted by Richard Page on Wed 25 Jan 2023 00:25:13 EST
The injured Lieut. Denis William Venables O'Flaherty.
I met the Queen's Messenger for Ankara on a chance meeting on a flight from Frankfurt to London. He served under Brigadier O'Flaherty and confirmed his eye patch and how he lost his eye as well as the fact that O'Flaherty was now deceased.
In the photograph of Lt O'Flaherty the soldier with the bayonet is Derek Gordon Page - of No 3 Commando. He subsequently transferred from the commandos to serve with the Gurkhas in India fighting in Burma and eventually ending the war in Indonesia where he met a Dutch prisoner of war who he subsequently married. He left the army with the rank of Captain. He was my father (I am his son Richard Page). We found this photo in a book on the Vagsoy raid (The Vaagsoy Raid by Joseph H Devins jr. published 1968) and he remembered it. Derek Page died in February 1979.
Posted by Richard Page on Tue 24 Jan 2023 23:59:32 EST
