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Remmert van Tijen
November 7th 1891, Wormerveer		† June 4th 1942, Langwasser (Germany)
Ranks			Decorations
Adelborst	year 1910		ON. 4	Date ?
Adelborst I	1913, 23 Aug		XXV
Ltz. III	1915, 16 Jan		Mk
Ltz. II	1915, 23 Aug
Ltz. I	1923, 1 Sep
Kapt.ltz.	1935, 5 Nov
Kaptz.	1939, 16 Sep
Killed as POW	1942, 4 June
Submarine Commands Hr.Ms. "O 4"   1920, 1 May - 1922, 13 November
Chronology 1920, 1 May - 1922, 13 November   Cdt. Hr.Ms. "O 4"
Civilian career ? - ? Studied "Krijgswetenschappen' ('military strategy') 1930, 15 September - 1934, 1 August   Teacher at the Hogere Marine-Krijgsschool 1935, 1 January - 1939, August Deputy Chief Hydrography Department of the Ministry of Defence 1940, May Ordered to stay in the Netherlands by Sbn. F.J. Heeris (#1257) 1940, ? Signed German document forbidding subversive actions, which he later very much regretted 1940, 15 July - 1942, 4 June Chief Hydrography Department of the Ministry of Defence 1940, 16 October - 1942, 4 June Member of the board of the K.M.N.I.  (Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute) at 's-Gravenhage 1942, 15 May - 1942, 4 June   P.O.W. (German) 1942, ? - 1942, 4 June Transported to Nuremberg-Langenwasser P.O.W.-camp in Germany where he died during an interrogation.
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Notes Nickname: "Schele Mina" (Cross-eyed Mina), because one eye was larger than the other. Son-in-law of G.F. Noordhoek Hegt (#929) Cousin of (A.25), W.B.K. Boom (#836), F. van Wageningen (#933), A. Seret (#1249) and W.B.K. Verster (#1587)

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