DUTCH INDONESIAN MEMOIRS 1941 - 1948
MLD Marine Luchtvaart Dienst
or
DNAS Dutch Naval Air Service
KONINKLIJKE LUCHTMACHT Netherlands Royal Air Force
HANGER 6 Naval Airstation Morokrembangan
The aftermath of the Japanese Invasion,
and the tragic effects on Robert Hartman Koks' family
Anna Jacoba Frederika
Abell-Hartman Kok
Date of Birth 20/07/1864
Death Registered 1945
Died Magelang Japanese Concentration Camps
Buried Dutch cemetery
Kalibanteng in Semarang
Ann Marie
Hartman Kok - Knops
Death Registered 20 Sep 1945
Died Japanese POW Camp
Semerang
Lamper Sari-Sompok, Indonesia
Husband Willy Hartman Kok
Margaret Apolonia
Hartman Kok-Andre
Born Besoeki 30/12/1916
Death Registered 1945
Dutch cemetery
Kembang Kuning
Here lie buried civilian victims of the camps in East Java
Surname Hartman Kok
Initials G.(Geert)
Rank Mlt. Sld. Ekl.Inf V(Volunteer soldier EKL Infantry)
Killed in action. Tijater Pass 5/7 March
Born Place. Semerang 1922
Death Place Tjiaterstelling 00.03.1942 Age 20
Dutch Military Cemetery Pandu Bandung, Indonesia
Number IV
My Fathers Brother
Pschunder-Hartman Kok
First names Eleonore Pauline
Birth Place Batavia Date of Birth 26/03/1923
Death Place Malang Death Date 03/11/1944
Died Body not recovered
Willy Hartman Kok
First names Willy Initials W.
Occupation Office. D.V.G.
Birth Place Malang,
NOI Date of Birth 03/09/1900
Death Place Garoet
Death Registered 11/10/1945
Body never recovered
Wife A M Hartman Kok-Knopps
Chali Hartman Kok.
Born 20 June 1905.
Captured aged 37, 9 March 1942,
Interred Java POW camp.
Transported to Thailand.
Interred Thai No1 branch camp
15 August 1942.
Died Burma Railway
Next of kin his wife.
M A Hartman Kok-Andre
Nicholas (Nico)Hartman Kok
Born 15 February 1909 Soerabaja
Fusselier Terr. tpn. Ie Div
No 122109 Japanese POW
Next of kin.
Willy Hartman Kok (Uncle)
Jacob Hartman Kok
Born 5 Dec 1920/1
Lawang Java.
Captured Bandung 8 March 1942
Army No 97668
Mother Hartman Kok-Moersiah
Paul Hartman Kok
Born 23 Jan 1918
Malang Java
Civilian
Date of Capture 11 Aug 1944
Mother Hartman Kok- Moersiah
T Hartman Kok
Born 1917
Gunner 2nd Cl, Artillery
Captured 2 Feb 1942 Ambon. However Japanese stamp is for Java camp.
No other information noted unlike other POW cards.
Due to the POW atrocities on Ambon. We presumed perished.
I have no Genealogical data on this member of the family.
Teunis Hartman Kok
Born 26 June 1911
Loemadjand East Java
15e Bat. Bandung
Captured March 1942
Transported Burma then Tokyo
Mother Hartman Kok- Moersiah
No POW card available
Information provided by
Teunis Hartman Kok
from his own private records.