That’s the Chancellery of Dutch Orden Saturday confirmed after a message from the Reformed Daily .
Van den Hoek received the award for acts of resistance in World War II. He smuggled people, messages, goods and medicines through the Biesbosch. He was a member of the resistance group ” The Partisans of the Biesbosch ”.
Queen Wilhelmina hit Van den Hoek on August 30, 1948 to support the Military Order of William.
After the death of Cornelis Pieter van den Hoek (93) there are four carriers of the Military Order of William alive. It is the Briton Ken Mayhew (born in 1917), the American Edward Fulmer (1919) and the Dutch Marco Kroon (1970) and Gijs Gardener (1979).
The Military Order of William, the highest and oldest award in the Netherlands. The medal was established in 1815 by King William I. The order consists of four grades: Knight Grand Cross, Commander, Officer and Knight. Carriers get the so-called right cross to an orange ribbon with two blue stripes.
The Military Order of William is for people who are “in the battle by excellent deeds of courage and loyalty, have distinguished “so in the law. It need not have been special in real war conditions.
Anyone can get the award. Military or civilian, sailor or general, of peasant origin or of nobility, Dutchman or foreigner, that does not matter. Since its establishment, the Military Order of William awarded more than 6000 times
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