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Dr, Ir Waling Karst Huitema
Facts and Events
| Name |
Dr, Ir Waling Karst Huitema |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
16 May 1899 |
Vreeswijk, Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Education? |
1927 |
Wageningen, Gelderland, NetherlandsWas educated at Wageningen Agricultural College; he came out to Java in 1925, and was appointed in temporary employ of the Government Guttapercha Estate at Tjipetir (W. Java); since 1927 on the staff cf the General Agricultural Experiment Station at Buitenzorg. In 1935, during a European furlough, he took his Dr’s degree at Wageningen. |
| Occupation[4] |
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Sumatra, Nederlands-Indië Landbouwkundige-Botanist |
| Death[2][3][5] |
18 Sep 1944 |
Sumatra, Nederlands-Indië a/b Junyo Maru op zee |
| Burial[2][3] |
18 Sep 1944 |
Sumatra, Nederlands-Indië Zeemansgraf . The exact position of the sinking was reported as 2º 52' S, 101º 12' E. |
References
- ↑ Vreeswijk, Utrecht, Netherlands, Burgerlijke Stand
Akte: 31, 16 MAY 1899. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Overlijden, in Members.iinet.net
18 SEP 1944.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Overlijden, in Members.iinet.net.
- ↑ Beroep, in Kiki.huh.harvard.edu.
- ↑ Dutch, English, Australian and American POWs and Javanese slave labourers died when the 5000 ton Japanese cargo boat Junyo Maru - under the command of Japanese Forces - was torpedoed off the western coast of Sumatra by a British submarine HMS Tradewind.
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