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Re: about a survivor that was said to be lost Uboat U-43 ship sunk Yselhaven june 6th 1941
Posted by: Rainer ()
Date: October 23, 2016 02:23PM

Hi

A Dutch seaman named Willem van Rhijn was lost in the sinking of YSELHAVEN on 6 June 1941, born on 17 September 1916 in Den Haag.

Your step grandfather had an identical name and was also a Dutch seaman, but born on 1 September 1905 in Katwijk van Zee. He joined the SLOTERDIJK of the Holland America Line as lamp trimmer on 2 December 1940 at Singapore and apparently served aboard this ship until the end of the war, even after she was taken over as troop transport by the US Army Transport Service.

Willem van Rhijn married Clarabel Chambers (born 28 December 1906, died 1974) on 29 November 1949 at Vancouver, WA and became a naturalized US citizen in 1954.

Best regards
Rainer

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