People

Everyone in Private Thomas Murphy's story, A to Z: the Dutch people who hid and guided him, and the soldiers and airmen he was with. Dutch names are listed under the surname without its van or de.

His battalion. Eighteen further 156 Para Bn accounts are held from The Battle of Arnhem Archive, including Lt-Col Richard des Voeux (his account), the CO, killed at Arnhem, and Maj. Geoffrey Powell (his account). None mentions Murphy by name (checked by search). The battalion history is John O'Reilly, From Delhi to Arnhem (Thoroton Publishing), and there is a living 151–156 Parachute Battalion Association (156para.co.uk). ⚠︎ Neither yet checked for Murphy.

• Alford, William Carson William Carson Alford, known as Bill, a Scottish doctor, commanded 133 (Parachute) Field Ambulance at Arnhem, ran its dressing stations at Oosterbeek until the Germans took the wounded to Apeldoorn, and there, under Col. Graeme Warrack, was in charge of…
• Allen, Albert Edward A staff sergeant of 16 Parachute Field Ambulance who escaped from the Apeldoorn barracks with Lipmann Kessel, Cedric Longland and Peter Allenby in October 1944 and came with them to De Ruif at Garderen, the house Murphy and Walsh left because it was…
• Allenby, Peter The anaesthetist of 16 Parachute Field Ambulance who worked beside Lipmann Kessel at the St Elisabeth Hospital in Arnhem, left the Apeldoorn barracks with Kessel, Cedric Longland and Allen in October 1944, and reached De Ruif at Garderen. He marched on…
• Andrews, George A captain "of the 1st American Army" whom Hendrik van Loenen says was dropped to him at the beginning of February 1945, and whom he lists among the four men he lost probing the front, with Koen Esveld, ◐ the younger son of the Amerongen household that hid…
• Asbeck-Patijn, Elisabeth van ◐ Very probably the wife of the Dutch naval officer Carel Johan Baron van Asbeck; by the Sterrehoveke household's forms, James Hardy came to Sterrehoveke from her and joined Murphy and Walsh, and Hardy dates his walk from Leuvenum to Elspeet 19 October…

• Baar, Hilbrand “Bram” Hilbrand Johannes Baar, "Bram", of Hulshorst, of Joop Migchelsen's resistance group, who looked after Murphy and the others at the forester's house Kijkuit in 1944. Arrested in January 1945, he was shot at Varsseveld on 2 March 1945.
• Bailey, Robert Kerr A Mosquito night-fighter pilot of 239 Squadron shot down on 27/28 May 1944, hidden at Renswoude and Stroe before Murphy's time, who went down the escape line with the American Bill Lalley and was taken at Antwerp on 11 August 1944. He was a prisoner at…
• Banwell, Keith “Tex” A sergeant of the 10th Parachute Battalion who escaped from the prisoner train after Arnhem, stayed on the Veluwe with the Dutch resistance, was with Murphy in October and November 1944 and in the crossing party of 2/3 January 1945, and was lost in the…
• Beek, Martinus van, “Rinus” A Harskamp man in the Arnhem police, "Rinus", one of Dick Kragt's two trusted men at Harskamp with Willem van Dijk, his brother-in-law (◐ through Van Dijk's marriage in June 1945, very probably to Van Beek's sister), who moved evaders for Kragt's…
• Berry, Wilfred Company sergeant major of the 1st Bn Canadian Scottish, of Vernon, B.C.: taken at the Leopold Canal on 7 October 1944, out of a prisoner train on 23 October, and hidden near Utrecht and at Amerongen. Wounded in the elbow when Murphy's party was fired on on…
• Bettink, Johan Johan Bettink of Otterlo, who with J. van Vemde and Kauffeld hid, fed and moved Allied soldiers after Arnhem and after Pegasus II. By Boeree's chronicle he hid six men who had walked out of the wood after the failed crossing of November 1944, ◐ possibly…
• Blackburn, Bob 2nd Lt Robert Bruce Blackburn of Huntington Park, California, co-pilot of a Fortress that crash-landed at Nieuw-Milligen on 21 November 1944, one of the four Americans of its crew whom Noordman puts in the barn at Harskamp with Murphy days later. He spent…
• Blok, Eric A former Dutch Army second lieutenant in Joop Migchelsen's resistance group at Hulshorst, at the forester's house Kijkuit in October 1944, when Hardy was first there and, ◐ by Hardy's "same party", when Murphy and Walsh arrived. ⚠︎ Possibly the Eric Blok…
• Bois, Abraham du, “Ham” A Dutch officer who reached England in 1940 and, as the agent "Ham" ("Martien" at Ede), was dropped near Garderen in October 1944 to gather the scattered paratroopers and prepare the Rhine crossing that became Pegasus II; the SD took him on 1 December 1944…
• Bonekat, Harold W. The bombardier of a Flying Fortress that came down at Nieuw-Milligen on 21 November 1944, one of the four Americans of its crew whom the historian Noordman puts in the barn at Harskamp with Murphy on 24–25 November. He was hidden by Dutch helpers until he…
• Bos, Elbert A farmer at Staverden, near Elspeet, who sheltered Dr Kruimel ("Oom Joop") from 1942 to Christmas 1944 and fed and hid the evaders Kruimel moved, among them, by his own form, Tex Banwell, whom he passed on to Thijs Foppen. ◐ Very probably the "Farmer Bos"…
• Braak, Evert van de A young farmer near Valk who, with his wife Aartje, took in Sam Walsh and James Branford, by his own list from 1 December 1944, after leaving the group they had been in with Murphy: Hardy has Hardy and Murphy leave the Roekel dug-out on the 24th, Walsh has…
• Bradford, Edward C. One of the six names the Gelders Archief's catalogue reads on a one-guilder note in the Airborne Museum's collection, signed by six British soldiers hidden on the Veluwe; the other five are Murphy's party. ⚠︎ Every other source has the RAF officer James…
• Branford, James An RAF bomb-aimer shot down over Berlin in August 1943, who escaped from Stalag IVB in April 1944, spent the summer and autumn hidden in Overijssel and on the Veluwe, and was with Murphy for weeks from Kijkuit to Pegasus II. He got out by the Sliedrecht…
• Briere, Marcel Private and stretcher-bearer in the 1st Bn Canadian Scottish, of Albertville, Saskatchewan: taken at the Leopold Canal on 7 October 1944, out of the prisoner train on 23 October, and hidden at Lage Vuursche, Bilthoven, Groenekan and Amerongen. Recaptured…
• Brink, H. van de A forester on the Otterloseweg near Ede, in whose wood the latecomers for Operation Pegasus II hid after missing the column on 17 November 1944, ◐ very probably Murphy's party among them. The SD arrested him six days later; he was held at Kamp Amersfoort…
• Broekhuijzen family The household of G. Broekhuijzen on the Essenerweg at Kootwijkerbroek, where, by Noordman, the British agent Dick Kragt and his helper Joop Piller had their headquarters in the autumn of 1944. By Noordman too, the six men led from Kijkuit, Murphy among…
• Broekhuis, Gerrit Jan A baker of Ede, married to Jacob Veerman's sister Jansje Maria, and so uncle by marriage to Jacob's children. ◐ Very probably the "uncle Gerrit" at Ede with whom Jopie Veerman was hiding when the SD came for her in February 1945 and took her father instead.
• Bruce, Gordon Francis James A serjeant of 156 Parachute Battalion, Murphy's battalion, who died at Arnhem on or shortly after 20 September 1944. He was found in a group of graves at Zonneheuvel, Oosterbeek, with Murphy's lieutenant, Lt Donaldson, and reburied the same day, 3…
• Bryson, Lionel Henry The regimental sergeant major of 181 Airlanding Field Ambulance, and sergeant major of the British hospital in the Willem III barracks at Apeldoorn, where Murphy and Sam Walsh gave their names to "the medical RSM" about 2 October 1944 (◐ very probably…
• Burger, Nol Arnoldus Jacobus "Nol" Burger, a carpenter, builder and estate agent of the Putterweg at Garderen and a radio man of the Raad van Verzet, who took in the doctor Dirk Eskes and his family in hiding and brought evaders to De Ruif. He also fetched…

• Coke, John A temporary major of the 7th (Airborne) Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, wounded and taken at Arnhem, who broke out of the hospital at Paleis Het Loo in October 1944 and commanded the rearguard of Pegasus II under Hugh Maguire. He was killed on…
• Cornelisse, Chris Christiaan "Chris" Cornelisse of the Rijnstraat, Amerongen, a resistance man who rowed and ferried evaders over the Rhine, worked with "Captain King" on the crossings, and with his wife hid Bob Porter and Roger Schjelderup over Christmas 1944. By the guide…
• Cornelisse, Leendert A helper at Amerongen, born there in 1924, a deputy in the N.B.S. there, who took evaders over the Rhine and fetched them from Maarn and Veenendaal, from September 1944 to May 1945. His 1945 statement is part of what identifies Hardy's "Koen" with Mrs…
• Cornelissen, Mr and Mrs The household at Rijnstraat 472, Amerongen, of Chris Cornelisse and his wife Elisabeth, "Mam" to the Allied men, which sheltered Bob Porter and Roger Schjelderup over Christmas 1944 until the crossing on which Murphy's party was caught, and other evaders…
• Coslett, Frank An American navigator shot down on 29 April 1944, hidden in Gelderland, Overijssel and Amsterdam until the SD took him on 24 December 1944, then held at Velp, De Kruisberg and Assen, condemned to death but not shot, until 13 April 1945; in the prisons he…
• Craven, John An RAF flight lieutenant of 50 Squadron (◐ a navigator, with the DFC) shot down over Oene near Epe on 21/22 June 1944 and hidden at Apeldoorn, Epe, Nunspeet and Doornspijk; by one historian's account (Noordman) in the barn at Harskamp on 24–25 November…

• Davison, Leslie A medical orderly attached to the 3rd Parachute Battalion who jumped from the prisoners' train in October 1944 and was in the party Murphy's group joined after Pegasus II. He cycled with Murphy and Hardy towards Barneveld on 25 November and crossed the…
• des Voeux, Sir William Richard A Grenadier Guards officer who commanded 156 Parachute Battalion, Murphy's battalion, from 1943, and was killed ◐ about 20 September 1944 (the CWGC has the 20th, one graves form "on or shortly after 19.9.44"), as the battalion fell back on the Oosterbeek…
• Dijk, Willem van A garage-keeper of Harskamp, "Piet", one of Dick Kragt's trusted men at Harskamp, with Martinus van Beek, his brother-in-law (◐ through Van Dijk's marriage in June 1945, very probably to Van Beek's sister), who moved evaders for the Frans Hals organisation…
• Dijkman, Berend A former Marechaussee sergeant at Ermelo who led the Raad van Verzet (RVV) on the Veluwe as "Piet van de Veluwe". The SD took him, his headquarters and his whole archive at Ermelo on 15 November 1944, two or three days before the Pegasus II crossing…
• Dijkstra, Boke The head of the laundry at the Rudolphstichting children's village at De Glind, next to Achterveld, whose house hid Major John Coke in 1944 and, by the Americans' file, 13 Allied men in all. Father of the courier Fokke and of Jan, who met Murphy that November.
• Dijkstra, Fokke Jacob A courier of seventeen from De Glind, taken by the SD at Scherpenzeel on 15 December 1944 while Murphy hid nearby; he died in Germany in the spring of 1945. ◐ Very probably the son who took Capt. Charles Noble to his father's house that December.
• Dijkstra, Jan Son of the laundry boss at the De Glind children's village, who hid Major Coke at his father's house in 1944 and brought Allied men to the Veerman farm. Hardy's "Jan (3)", who met Murphy and Hardy outside Barneveld on 25 November 1944 and moved them on on…
• Donaldson, William Platoon commander of 11 Platoon, C Company, 156 Parachute Battalion, commissioned from cadet to second lieutenant in November 1943. Hit through the leg and arm on the 21st by Walsh's report (on the thigh, undated, by Murphy's memoir) and killed at…
• Doornebosch, Joop A storekeeper of Leersum in the K.P. and the CAWTON group, whose house and the Berghuis there were a transit point for evaders on their way to the river crossings in the winter of 1944–45. Among the first on his list were Capt. Charles Noble and a "Tex", ◐…

• Ee, Gerrit van A farmer's son of Kootwijkerbroek who was one of the guides on the evening Murphy's party set out for the Pegasus II crossing (17 November 1944 by Hardy's report; 18 November by Noordman, who has Van Ee confirming he was a guide), and carried the glider…
• Elst, Mr van der By Joop Migchelsen's account, Mr van der Elst of the Cliostraat in Amsterdam put half of a double house at Hierderweg 132, Hulshorst, at Migchelsen's disposal for his underground work, and in that house Murphy and five other Allied men were hidden in 1944.…
• Eskes, Dirk Dirk Eskes, a doctor in hiding, "Alex", Dr Kruimel's partner in the Veluwe pilot line and later, by his testament, his widow's notice and the War Ministry's card, commander of the radio service with the Netherlands Government (see "Where the sources…
• Essen, J. van ◐ Named by the historian Wolter Noordman, and by him alone, as the owner of the barn near Harskamp where Murphy and James Hardy spent the night of 24–25 November 1944 with Davison, an RAF officer and four American airmen. Noordman also has men of the party…
• Esveld, Berend “Flip” The elder son of the Amerongen family, resistance name "Flip", Hardy's "Beent", a garage-keeper and head of the K.P. at Amerongen who guided evaders to the Rhine and through the lines. The Sunday Post of 1972 has him writing to Murphy after finding…
• Esveld, Gerrit Hendrik “Gerald” The Amerongen garage owner and former chauffeur to Count Bentinck, Hardy's "Gerald ESVELD", whose house took in Murphy and James Hardy from 23 December 1944 to 2 January 1945. His younger son, a guide of the party Murphy set out with, was found dead at…
• Esveld, Gerrit Herman “Coen” The younger son of the Amerongen family that hid Murphy from 23 or 24 December 1944 (Hardy has the evening of the 23rd, his mother the 24th) to 2 January 1945, a resistance man who ran evaders over the Rhine with Chris Cornelisse (Geschiedenis Magazine)…
• Esveld, Heimen van A Kootwijkerbroek farmer who hid fourteen Allied evaders from October 1944 to March 1945 and lodged about thirty in all. Among them was Bernard Haller of Murphy's party; his list also has a James Branford and an S. Walsh, seven days each (◐ Murphy's…
• Esveld-Strubbe, M.G. Martina Gijsberta Strübbe, wife of Gerald Esveld and mother of Flip and Coen, in whose house at Amerongen Murphy and James Hardy stayed from 23 or 24 December 1944 to 2 January 1945. She gave her list of the men she housed to the Americans herself, on 28…
• Eysinga, Dirk van "Derek" of Sterrehoveke at Elspeet, a jonkheer from Leiden hiding at his aunt Ima van Eysinga's house, who sheltered Murphy and Walsh there in October 1944 and guided their party on two night marches; later the Netherlands' ambassador in Bucharest.
• Eysinga, Ima van A painter and embroiderer, deaf from the age of three, who lived at Sterrehoveke in Elspeet with her companion Liesbeth Verweij and, in the war, her nephew Dirk van Eysinga. By Liesbeth Verweij's account Murphy and Walsh were hidden in her house from about…

• Fokkemmal A Dutch padre in hiding who told Murphy, while Murphy was hidden in the Barneveld district in 1944, that his real name was "Fokkemmal" and his underground name Brandt. ◐ Possibly the "Reverend Vogema (alias Dr. Brand)" of Jacques Vanhaelen's account of the…
• Foppen, Thijs A man of Staverden, near Elspeet, a labourer by the Americans' form ("a poor labourer family") and a painter's hand in 1937, living opposite the farmer Bos in Noordman's account, who hid American airmen for Dr Kruimel in the winter of 1943–1944 and, for…

• Galen, Jeane van A young woman from Enkhuizen who lived with the Van Nispen family at De Ruif, Garderen, in 1944 and helped the lady of the house. Her form for the Americans of 31 May 1946 lists Murphy among the Allied men she helped, with his army number right.
• Garderen, Bab van A gamekeeper on the Moorsterweg at Leusden, neighbour of the farm Hardeveld, the second billet of Gilbert Kirschen's Belgian SAS team. On 5 January 1945, in the last raid Huurdeman lists in the round-up that followed the team's billets, the SD came to his…
• Gordon, William Alexander A private of C Company, 156 Parachute Battalion, Murphy's battalion, nursed through the winter of 1944 in the house of the widow Jacoba van der Mheen at Lunteren, and taken in January 1945 by ◐ her sons Henk and Wim to a garage owner at Amerongen (◐ our…
• Gri, A. Sergeant Armando Gri of the Canadian Scottish, a garage owner from Trail, British Columbia, was taken at the Leopold Canal on 7 October 1944, jumped from the prisoner train at Utrecht on 23 October and was hidden round Maartensdijk and Hilversum (Before).…
• Grier, Leslie A Bren gunner of 11 Platoon, C Company, 156 Parachute Battalion, ◐ Murphy's own platoon, whom ⚠︎ The Battle of Arnhem Archive has carrying the fatally wounded Lt Donaldson to safety in a blanket with Pte Lewis Kemp. Wounded in the head and taken prisoner,…
• Groen, Albert Sidney “Ab” A Jewish doctor from Amsterdam who hid at Dr Kruimel's house De Ruif at Garderen in 1943 and then at the Bos farm at Staverden until October 1944, where, by his own letter, "a real Londoner" whom Noordman identifies as Tex Banwell came in October 1944;…

• Hackett, John Winthrop Brig. John Winthrop Hackett, of the 8th Hussars, commanded 4th Parachute Brigade, Murphy's brigade, at Arnhem, and was badly wounded at Oosterbeek on 24 September 1944 (Powell; his escape report). Taken out of the St Elisabeth Hospital by the Dutch…
• Haller, Bernard The "Sgt John" of Hardy's and Walsh's reports, a glider pilot wounded at Arnhem who escaped from the Apeldoorn barracks with James Hardy on the night of 6/7 October 1944 and hid with Murphy's party on the Veluwe until Pegasus II failed. He then stayed…
• Harding, Sgt A sergeant of the 10th Parachute Battalion who, by Sam Walsh's MI9 report, joined Walsh and Murphy at Dr Kruimel's house De Ruif at Garderen a few days after they came, stayed on when they left, and had gone before the Germans burned the house on 23…
• Hardy, James A medical orderly of 16 Parachute Field Ambulance who escaped from the Willem III barracks at Apeldoorn on 6/7 October 1944, met Murphy at Elspeet on 19 October and stayed with him until the night of 2/3 January 1945, when he swam a canal to reach the…
• Hartog, Sister den A woman in nurse's dress who joined Maguire's column at Westerrode on 17 November 1944, was taken by the Germans the next morning, and was held at the Wormshoef, Velp and the Kruisberg until freed at Groningen. ◐ Probably the Rotterdam nurse A. den Hartog…
• Hattem, Albert van ⚠︎ The name one book gives to the Dutch guide who went missing, with a Polish soldier, when the party of 2 January 1945 met a German patrol in the flooded Betuwe, before the firing in which Murphy was lost to the rest. No other source names him.
• Haydel, Ray The engineer and top-turret gunner of a Flying Fortress that came down at Nieuw-Milligen on 21 November 1944, one of the four Americans of its crew whom the historian Noordman puts in the barn at Harskamp with Murphy on 24–25 November. From December 1944…
• Heg, Aart van de The form made out for Dries Klooster's household after his death records that Tex Banwell was received from A. v.d. Heg of Barneveld on 20 November 1944 and sent on to the "Rüdolfstichting" (◐ the Rudolphstichting, the children's village at De Glind)…
• Herford, Martin An RAMC doctor commanding 163 Field Ambulance of XXX Corps, who crossed the Rhine with medical supplies on 24 September 1944, was taken by the Germans and arranged with them the British hospital in the Willem III barracks at Apeldoorn, where he was Col…
• Heweke, “Lieutenant” The German interrogator Murphy names as "Lieutenant Heweke" in his typed notes and "Mr Hencke" in his memoir, who questioned him after his recapture near the Rhine on the night of 2 January 1945. ⚠︎ Murphy is the only source for the man, and he spells the…
• Hoekstra, Pieter E. A young member of the Raad van Verzet at Garderen who moved Allied airmen and escaped paratroopers in the autumn of 1944. His list for the Americans has two privates, "Spud" and "Tom", ◐ very probably Murphy and Sam Walsh, taken from "Johan v…
• Holvoet, Raymond, “Bacon” A Belgian SAS signaller from Kortrijk, the agent "Bacon", dropped near Garderen in October 1944 as radio operator to Abraham du Bois ("Ham") and taken first to Dr Kruimel's bunker at De Ruif, Murphy's hiding place that month. Arrested at Garderen on 27…
• Hoogland family Nico Hoogland's household at Kersweg B 514, Amerongen, the CAWTON group's central address for Allied men. ◐ By Porter and Maljers, who brought the men to Amerongen and went with the crossing, it took in Canadians of Murphy's crossing party over Christmas 1944.

• Jongh, Huib de Huib de Jongh (or de Iongh), "Lou", a Rotterdam managing director born at Semarang in 1913, who moved evaders for the Frans Hals organisation with Dirk van Eysinga and Dr Kruimel; ◐ by Noordman's identification of Hardy's "LOEW", backed by Dirk van…
• Joyce, Patrick ◐ By the Pegasus compiler's identification, the "Sjt. JOYCE" who was acting platoon sergeant of 11 Platoon, C Company, 156 Parachute Battalion, and was hit through the chest in the same burst as Lt Donaldson on 21 September 1944. Walsh's report says he…
• Jurriaanse, Mr By Liesbeth Verweij's account, the forester's house Kijkuit, where Murphy, Walsh and Hardy were hidden from 26 October 1944, was "een boswachterswoning van de heer Jurriaanse" (a forester's house of Mr Jurriaanse), and no other source names him as its…

• Kamphorst, Gerrit A farmhand at Hardeveld, Leusden, one of the two billets of Gilbert Kirschen's Belgian SAS team, "Captain King", taken by the SD on 31 December 1944 (⚠︎ 5 January 1945 in three later records) in the round-up that was going on around the Veerman farm while…
• Kauffeld, Antonie Eldert A trading-company director at Roekel, near Ede, who with his neighbours fed Allied men hiding in the woods after the failed Pegasus II crossing of November 1944, ◐ probably Murphy's party among them. The SD held him from 24 November 1944 to 20 January 1945.
• Kemp, Lewis The No. 2 on Pte Leslie Grier's Bren gun at Arnhem, whom ⚠︎ Grier's page has carrying the fatally wounded Lt Donaldson, ◐ Murphy's platoon commander, to safety in a blanket with Grier. Wounded by shrapnel (in the ankle on Grier's page, in the foot in the…
• Kessel, Alexander Lipmann The South African-born surgeon of 16 Parachute Field Ambulance who saved Brigadier Hackett's life at Arnhem, escaped from Apeldoorn on 15 or 16 October 1944 and reached De Ruif at Garderen about when Murphy left, joined Pegasus II, and got through to the…
• Kirschen, Gilbert “Captain King” A Belgian SAS officer, dropped on the Veluwe on 15 September 1944 with a team of four to send intelligence to England, who stayed behind the lines until the early months of 1945. His wireless was an outlet for the district's intelligence and for the…
• Klooster, Dries A post-office clerk at Barneveld and a resistance man of Group Hein, whose house hid Allied evaders, among them Tex Banwell and Charles Noble of Murphy's story. He was killed by a shell at Appel, near Nijkerk, on 17 April 1945.
• Klooster-Kohnhorst, Jo The wife of Dries Klooster, whose Barneveld house hid Allied evaders, among them Tex Banwell and Charles Noble of Murphy's story. By Diet Eman's account the Germans took her in April 1945; she is no. 2 on the Vrouwenmars list.
• Kok, Adriaan de A young man who, by Bernard Haller's account, fetched Haller and James Hardy at Hulshorst in October 1944 and took them to a house in the woods; ◐ probably the "ADRIAN, a member of the Underground" whom Hardy found at the forester's house Kijkuit, where…
• Kragt, Dick The British MI9 agent, parachuted onto the Veluwe in June 1943, who with Joop Piller ran the line that hid Allied airmen and, after Arnhem, paratroopers. He planned the Pegasus II rendezvous of November 1944, which Murphy's party set out for and missed,…
• Kruimel, Dr Johannes Petrus Orthopaedic surgeon of Utrecht whose country house De Ruif at Garderen hid Jews from 1942 and airmen and paratroopers from 1943, Murphy and Walsh among them in October 1944. The Germans burned it on 23 October 1944; he died on 23 May 1976.
• Kuilen, Hendrik van de A farmhand at Hardeveld, one of the two billets of Gilbert Kirschen's Belgian SAS team, taken by the SD on 31 December 1944 in the round-up that followed (⚠︎ a police report of 1957 has 5 January 1945: Where the sources disagree). He was Hendrik van de…

• Lagerweij, Wuf The farmer of Hardeveld at De Glind, Leusden, who fitted out the hen-house where Gilbert Kirschen's Belgian SAS team, "Captain King", lived and transmitted in September and October 1944. When the SD raided the farm, by Huurdeman and the police report he…
• Lalley, Bill An American B-17 co-pilot shot down on 29 April 1944, hidden at Stroe with help from Dr Kruimel before Murphy's time, who went down the escape line with the Mosquito pilot Robert Bailey and was put into the Antwerp jail on 11 August 1944. He was a prisoner…
• Lewington, Henry William A private of C Company, 156 Parachute Battalion, the company Murphy served in, who died at Arnhem on or shortly after 21 September 1944. He was found in an isolated group of graves at Zonneheuvel, Oosterbeek, with Lt Donaldson, and reburied the same day as…
• Liezenberg, Laurens One of the men taken in the SD's round-up of December 1944 which, by Huurdeman's account, followed the old billets of Gilbert Kirschen's Belgian SAS team at De Glind and Scherpenzeel; it began while Murphy was hidden at the Veerman farm. Huurdeman has…
• Loenen, Hendrik van A Zeist-born resistance man, imprisoned in 1942, who crossed the lines with evaders in October 1944, trained in England as an MI9 agent, code name CAWTON, and was dropped back at the end of December to run the Rhine crossings and an intelligence network…
• Longland, Cedric "Shorty" Longland, a surgeon of 16 Parachute Field Ambulance who ran a surgical team in the St Elisabeth Hospital at Arnhem, escaped from Apeldoorn with Kessel in October 1944 and came to De Ruif; the Van Eysinga papers at Elspeet name him with Murphy. He…
• Lorne, Thomas A private of 156 Parachute Battalion, Murphy's battalion, wounded and taken at Arnhem, who escaped from an ambulance on 26 September 1944 and was hidden by Dutch helpers from the Liemers to Eerbeek until Pegasus II, where he was shot through the knee in a…
• Lynch, John Patrick “Jack” A private of 156 Para Bn, Murphy's battalion, who escaped with William Prince from the St Antonius hospital in Utrecht on 6 October 1944, the day Murphy got out of Apeldoorn, and was hidden at Utrecht, Langbroek, Wijk bij Duurstede and Amerongen. Taken…

• Mackay, E.R.A., Baron Baron Eric Mackay of Harskamp and his wife Gertrud hid a Jewish girl from Rotterdam in the war, and they hid Murphy's party of six in a chicken hut on his estate from 7 to 14 November 1944. Yad Vashem recognised the two of them as Righteous Among the…
• Maguire, Hugh The 1st Airborne Division's intelligence officer, who commanded Pegasus II, by the Ede accounts on 17/18 November 1944 (the night is not settled, see Where the sources disagree), the crossing Murphy's party set out with and lost. He was taken prisoner…
• Maljers, Adriaan "Dirk", the guide who led Murphy's party out of Amerongen on 2 January 1945 and was taken at Opheusden, tortured at Velp and sentenced to death, then freed in the last weeks of the war. A policeman from Zeeland in hiding at Langbroek, he had run evaders…
• Marrable, Arthur Commanding officer of 181 Airlanding Field Ambulance at Arnhem, then head of the administrative wing of the British hospital in the Willem III barracks at Apeldoorn, which Murphy escaped from on 6 October 1944 (Walsh; Apeldoorn and the escape); Warrack,…
• McCabe, Father A priest who, by Murphy's memoir, came from "Lochore St Kenneths, back home" and ran a Boys Town at Ranchi in India when Murphy's battalion of the Black Watch came there, after the fall of Singapore. Murphy is the only source for him.
• McNaught, Frank A paratrooper of the 11th Battalion whose Dakota crash-landed near Rhenen on 18 September 1944. He hid near Rhenen and at a Kootwijkerbroek farm (◐ Heimen van Esveld's), where Haller of Murphy's party wintered with him, and crossed with Walsh in March 1945.
• Meerveld, Albert van Albert "Ab" van Meerveld, cover name "Prins", of Group Hein, who moved Allied evaders around Barneveld until he was arrested at Dries Klooster's house on 8 December 1944; he died at Wöbbelin in March 1945, and is ◐ very probably Charles Noble's "Ape".
• Melis, Berry A Tilburg resistance man of the K.P. who went with the party of 2 January 1945 and walked at its head with Adriaan Maljers. When the party was fired on near Opheusden he got away, and by his own form swam the Rhine when the Germans surrounded him.
• Mheen, Henk van der Hendrik "Henk" van der Mheen, a clerk of Lunteren and a resistance man of the Ede and Lunteren group, who, by the Americans' summary, "had acted as a guide and assisted in carrying out the two Pegasus operations" (Boeree has him and his brother Wim among…
• Mheen, Wim van der Willem "Wim" van der Mheen, a smith of Lunteren and a courier of the Ede and Lunteren resistance, who led the Lunteren men blowing the railway in September 1944, was with his brother Henk among the guides of the first crossing in Boeree and, by the…
• Michels, Gerrit Jan A constable of the Ede police, stationed at Otterlo in the war and at Harskamp after it, who by his own account helped Allied paratroopers in September 1944 and was thanked by the Roekel helper Kauffeld for his help around Kauffeld's arrest. ◐ He is one of…
• Migchelsen, Joop A timber merchant of Hulshorst who led a resistance group there. His group kept Murphy and five other Allied men at the forester's house Kijkuit in the Leuvenumse Bos, Murphy from 26 October to 6 November 1944 by Hardy's dates.
• Mikol, George A "Captain" and "spy", as Berend "Flip" Esveld called him, whom the Esvelds, the Amerongen family that had hidden Murphy, took to and from hiding places in January 1945 and Flip housed until mid-February, and who by Flip's account set off for the lines…
• Moore, Frederick Victor A 1st Parachute Battalion private who got out of a prisoners' train through a ventilator on 27 September 1944 and was in the dug-out near Roekel with Murphy after Pegasus II. He crossed the Rhine by dinghy with Leslie Davison in December 1944.
• Morren, A. A helper named by Boeree with Kauffeld, Van Vemden and Bettink among those "in de naaste omgeving" (close by, of a place he does not name) who helped the stragglers of the failed crossing of November 1944; Bettink's card of 1946 lists him with Van Vemde…

• Nispen tot Sevenaer, Jhr H. L. M. van Mayor of Laren from 1909 to 1943 and again in 1945–46 (and of neighbouring Blaricum from 1913 to 1922), who was in hiding with his wife and son at Dr Kruimel's house De Ruif at Garderen in October 1944, when Murphy and Walsh were there. Murphy names him;…
• Noble, Charles An RAMC anaesthetist born at Blantyre and living at Hamilton, captured at Ginkel, who jumped from the prisoners' train on 23 September 1944, evaded through the autumn, and was caught in the party fired on near Opheusden on the night of 2/3 January 1945, ◐…

• Oldenbarneveld, Johan van, “Dove Jan” The deaf poultry farmer on the Westerwoudt estate by Assel who, with his wife, hid Murphy and Walsh from 7 to 14 October 1944. Through 1944 he sheltered American airmen and British paratroopers there, fetching most of them himself.
• Omme, Elbert “Eb” van A farm labourer of Kootwijkerbroek in the N.B.S. and Dick Kragt's "Frans Hals" organisation who moved evaders towards the Pegasus II crossing and, with Gerrit van Ee, fetched by horse and cart the men left in the wood after it on 20 November 1944. He died…
• Oosterbroek, Pieter “Piet” A resistance man of Putten, in the RVV, who took in Tex Banwell after the prisoner train in September 1944 and was with him in the attack at the Oldenallerbrug that brought on the Razzia van Putten. Shot and taken by the SD in December 1944, he came home…

• Piller, Joop A Jewish bookkeeper from Amsterdam, in hiding on the Veluwe, who as "Joop van Amstel" ran the Frans Hals pilot line with the MI9 agent Dick Kragt from June 1943, opposed Pegasus II, and after the war, as a captain, questioned the forger Han van Meegeren…
• Plak, C.J.A. Dove Jan's wife, who with him hid Jews, airmen and paratroopers at their poultry farm by Assel, Murphy and Walsh among them for a week in October 1944. Her own account of those years, a letter to her sister, was printed in New York in September 1945.
• Porter, Robert “Bob” A Canadian bomb-aimer of 419 Squadron shot down near Zeist on the night of 16/17 June 1944 and hidden for six months, most of them at Groenekan, who set out with Murphy's party on 2 January 1945 and was taken the next day with Berry. He was a prisoner in…
• Powell, Geoffrey Regular officer of the Green Howards who commanded C Company of the 156 Parachute Battalion at Arnhem, Murphy's company, and took over what was left of the battalion. Murphy's memoir has "Mr Powell" (◐ him) make him a sniper; Powell won the Military Cross,…
• Prince, William A staff sergeant of the Army Physical Training Corps attached to 156 Para Bn, Murphy's battalion, who escaped from the St Antonius hospital in Utrecht on 6 October 1944, the day Murphy got out of Apeldoorn, and was hidden at Utrecht, Langbroek, Wijk bij…

• Rakers, Hermannus "Papa Rakers", the policeman at Groenekan and local commander of the resistance's Interior Forces, who hid the airman Bob Porter, Captain Schjelderup, Marcel Briere and Wilfred Berry in 1944, men who set out with Murphy's party from Amerongen on 2 January…
• Rengers Hora Siccama, jhr W.J.H.D., “Eduard” Wiardus Rengers Hora Siccama, a Utrecht jonkheer and reserve officer of hussars, was in the Putten resistance and ◐ the "Eduard" whose name is in the De Ruif guestbook facing Murphy's poem. Arrested in November 1944, he died at Apeldoorn on 1 February 1945.
• Rolandus Hagedoorn-Meeter, Johanna Harriet Doedenia Johanna Harriet Doedenia Meeter, widow of Jan Derk Rolandus Hagedoorn, of Amerongen, who hid Capt. Charles Noble at Christmas 1944 and a captain she called "George Nikol". Noble left her house for the crossing of 2 January 1945, on which he and Murphy were…
• Roskam, Johannes “Jan” A Knokploeg man of Barneveld who went into hiding in September 1944 and became, by the Americans' summary, one of the leaders of the escape work round Barneveld with Dick Kragt and Joop Piller. It names him among the escorts of a failed Rhine crossing of…
• Roskamp, Teus A man the escape report of the American airmen Willig and Bonekat calls a vet, on a farm outside Barneveld, and says sheltered them on 24 November 1944, the night Hardy's report puts four airmen of a Fortress shot down on 21 November in a barn with him and…
• Rothuizen, Jan A building draughtsman from Heelsum, taken by the SD on 19 December 1944 at Cornelis Verhoef's farm at Achterveld, in the SD's round-up which, by Huurdeman's account, followed the old billets of Gilbert Kirschen's Belgian SAS team, while Murphy was hidden…

• Schjelderup, Roger Captain Vilhelm Roger Schjelderup of Courtenay, British Columbia, commanded C Company of the Canadian Scottish at the Leopold Canal, was captured on 7 October 1944, cut his way out of the prisoner train at Utrecht on 23 October and was hidden at Groenekan…
• Schouten, Hein The baker of Achterveld, Hendrik (Hein) Schouten, whom a 1970 article remembering Jacob Veerman names as the baker who "provides the rye bread for the paratrooper-liberators" (◐ the article does not say these were the men Jacob hid), and as the man Jacob…
• Shepley, Arthur A lance-sergeant of 156 Parachute Battalion, ◐ the "Sgt Shepley" Murphy had beside him at Arnhem when an 88 mm tank round hit them, and who, Murphy presumed, "got the full blast". ParaData has him wounded and taken prisoner on 25 September 1944 and a…
• Springer, Piet de (Jan de Bloois) Jan de Bloois of Maasland, an England-farer dropped back into the Netherlands as an agent in May 1944, who as "Piet de Springer" guided evaders from Langbroek over the Rhine. Flip Esveld's lists name him as the man who handed him three of the men who…
• Stob, Freerk (Kik) "Kik" to the Allied men, of the K.P. at Amerongen, born 28 May 1924. With Coen Esveld ("Louis" to his mother, ◐ Hardy's "Koen"), he took Murphy and Hardy from Gerald Esveld's house over the Rhine to Lienden on 2 January 1945, the start of the crossing on…
• Swartz, Harvey Pte H. Swartz was taken at the Leopold Canal on 7 October 1944, jumped from the prisoner train at Utrecht on 23 October with Gri, and was hidden at Maartensdijk. He crossed the Rhine from Amerongen with Murphy's party on 2 January 1945, was recaptured the…

• Thijssen, Jan A founder of the Raad van Verzet, a Dutch resistance organisation, and a founder or co-founder of its radio service (◐ the sources differ: below), arrested in November 1944 and shot at the Woeste Hoeve in March 1945. After his arrest, by one local history,…
• Thorne, Peter RAF navigator, shot down over Hamburg in 1943. Escaped Stalag IVB in May 1944 in a party with the airman James Branford, who was later on the run with Murphy; taken at Laren in November 1944, and died of his injuries on 2 February 1945 after jumping from…
• Trainor, Louis Pte L. F. Trainor of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, was posted missing from the Essex Scottish on 6 October 1944 and jumped from the prisoner train at Utrecht on 23 October with Schjelderup's Canadian Scottish men. He was hidden at Groenekan, set out…

• Veenendaal, Piet A farmer of Scherpenzeel and a district commander of the R.V.V., resistance name "Bart", whose chain, ◐ by the helpers' forms (none gives a first name), passed Allied evaders on, among them Charles Noble and Tex Banwell, later in the party fired on near…
• Veerman, Arie The elder of the two brothers of Jacob Veerman, who hid Murphy and Hardy at Klein Achterveld for a month in 1944: a bookkeeper and then an accountant at Utrecht, where he died in 1958. No source puts him at the farm; Murphy's revolver came, by his notes,…
• Veerman, Jacob The farmer of Klein Achterveld, between Achterveld and Barneveld, who with his wife Aaltje hid Murphy and James Hardy for a month in November and December 1944, among other Allied men and people in hiding. The SD came for his daughter Jopie, a courier, on…
• Veerman, Johanna Maria “Jopie” The eldest daughter of the Klein Achterveld farm, a resistance courier at sixteen, who was there through the month Murphy and Hardy were hidden on it in 1944. When the SD came for her in February 1945 they took her father instead; she gave herself up to…
• Veerman, Leendert Jan The younger of the two brothers of Jacob Veerman, who hid Murphy and Hardy at Klein Achterveld for a month in 1944: a bicycle repairer of Barneveld, held at Kamp Vught from December 1943 to July 1944, and after the war on the staff of the post-war…
• Veerman-Bakker, Aaltje Jacob Veerman's wife and the mother of their seven children, who kept the house at Klein Achterveld through the month Murphy and Hardy were hidden there. Her husband was taken in February 1945 in place of their daughter Jopie and died on the Cap Arcona;…
• Vemde, Jan van Jan van Vemde of Aerdenhout, evacuated to Wekerom, who with Kauffeld and Bettink hid and fed Allied soldiers after Arnhem and after Pegasus II; ◐ very probably the keeper of the dug-out where Murphy hid from 20 to 24 November 1944. The SD arrested him on…
• Verhoef, Cornelis A farmer on the Klettersteeg at Achterveld, and with Rengertje Blom the father of Jan and Johan Verhoef (the camp files; the sons' death registrations). The SD took both sons from his farm in December 1944; he was ill and was left behind, and he died on 30…
• Verhoef, Jan Joannes Henricus Johannes "Jan" Verhoef, the elder son of Cornelis Verhoef of the Klettersteeg at Achterveld, was taken from the farm by the SD in December 1944 with his brother Johan. He died at the Wöbbelin camp on 4 March 1945, three days before Johan.
• Verhoef, Johan Johannes Wouterus "Johan" Verhoef, the younger son of Cornelis Verhoef of the Klettersteeg at Achterveld, was taken from the farm by the SD in December 1944 with his brother Jan. He went by De Kruisberg prison at Doetinchem to Neuengamme, and died at the…
• Verhoef, Wouterus A farmer of Nieuw Bakelaar at Terschuur, in Barneveld, whose farm was a courier post of the Raad van Verzet. The SD took him on 5 October 1944, after a train was shot at nearby; he was sent from Amersfoort to Neuengamme as a "Terrorist" and died there on…
• Verweij, Liesbeth ◐ A daughter of the writer Albert Verwey and the companion of Ima van Eysinga at Sterrehoveke, Elspeet. In October 1944 she brought Murphy and Walsh there from De Ruif, walked them and Hardy to Kijkuit, and wrote the account of those weeks that Noordman…
• Visser-Derksen, Marie An evacuee of the autumn of 1944 whose own account puts her at Jacob Veerman's farm on 24 February 1945, the day the Germans were taking his horses: she was searched, given bread by the woman of the house and let go, and heard afterwards that Jacob and his…
• Vlist, Zegert van der The man of the house at Hierderweg 132, Elspeet (◐ Kijkuit), whose family lived beside Murphy and five others hidden in 1944. His invasion guilder carried the six men's signatures; sent to Wassenaar about November 1945, it had not come back by January 1947.
• Vroege, Emma Wilhelmina A courier of Joop Migchelsen's resistance group at Hulshorst, very probably the "Emmy", nineteen, who saw to the food at the forester's house Kijkuit in October 1944 and, ◐ by Hardy's "same party", while Murphy hid there. She was arrested on 13 January…

• Walsh, Samuel “Sam” A Bren gunner of 11 Platoon, C Company, 156 Parachute Battalion, hit and taken at Arnhem on 21 September 1944. He escaped from the Apeldoorn barracks with Thomas Murphy on 6 October, stayed with him until late November (◐ Hardy has Murphy leave the dug-out…
• Ward, Richard David “David” The bomb aimer of a 644 Squadron Halifax that crash-landed near Putten on 6 October 1944, hidden around Voorthuizen and then, with his navigator Walter McGeachin, on Jacob Veerman's farm at Klein Achterveld, from which he went to the Pegasus II crossing on…
• Warrack, Graeme The senior medical officer of 1st Airborne Division, who commanded the airborne hospital in the Willem III barracks at Apeldoorn that Murphy escaped from, hid in a hollow above his cupboards when it was cleared, and reached the British lines in February…
• Weine The man who, by Adriaan Maljers's account, had "investigated the whole matter" (◐ the route through the flooded Betuwe), and whom Maljers met at the brickworks where the party gathered on 2 January 1945. Nothing else about him has been found.
• Westerwoudt, Maria J.H. Maria Westerwoudt of Assel, "Heintje" to the Allied men, of the Raad van Verzet, who hid American and Canadian airmen and two paratroopers of Murphy's battalion on her family's estate in 1944–45. By Noordman's account (◐ p. 139; the evidence is on Dove…
• Whittaker, Peter A 617 Squadron air gunner shot down on the Dortmund–Ems Canal raid of 23/24 September 1944, hidden at Markelo and Laren, taken prisoner there on 1 or 2 November and held at De Kruisberg, Doetinchem. He was one of the men who jumped from its train for…
• Willig, Sidney H. The navigator of a Flying Fortress that came down at Nieuw-Milligen on 21 November 1944, one of the four Americans of its crew whom the historian Noordman puts in the barn at Harskamp with Murphy on 24–25 November. Hidden by Dutch helpers with his…

• Zijtveld, Gijs van An Achterveld man, Hardy's "Ghys", who took Murphy and James Hardy to the Veerman farm on 25 November 1944, visited them there, and on 23 December was the man at whose house they picked up the bicycles they rode on to Amerongen; by May 1946 he was in the…

People in the story nobody has put a name to yet.

"Jan (2)" (arrested c.16 Nov), "Han", "Willem" and brother, "Dick" (the one of 25 Nov)

Where: Various

About: Guides and couriers

Evidence: ⚠︎ Unidentified. ◐ "Willem" and the policeman who fetched them from Harskamp may be Kragt's two men there: "Marten van Beek en Willem van Dijk in Harskamp. Van Beek ('Rinus') was bij de politie in Arnhem" (Marten van Beek and Willem van Dijk in Harskamp; Van Beek, "Rinus", was in the Arnhem police), the two of whom went about in police uniform (Ede manuscript, pp. 43–44); Van Dijk's cover name was "Piet", not Willem

Unnamed Dutch policeman; first farmer and wife; the poacher

Where: Kootwijk / Otterlo

Evidence: ⚠︎ Unidentified (for the policeman, ◐ see Unidentified guides above). The first farm, 7 October, is at the Kerkendelweg, Kootwijk, on Walsh's map reference (Walsh, converted to today's grid)

Jacob Veerman's brother, in the Dutch Police

Where: Ede / Barneveld

About: Per Murphy (twice in his notes), gave him a police revolver; Murphy believed the Germans "rounded up the Uncle and others". Hardy has the revolver from Jacob, and a son of Jacob's remembers Jacob fetching it from his brother Leen; ◐ probably Leen's (Jacob Veerman). ⚠︎ No record has Leen, or anyone in the family, a policeman in 1944. Jacob's brothers were Arie, a bookkeeper in 1924, and Leendert Jan, a bicycle repairer in 1931 (records); a brother-in-law would fit as well. The "oom Gerrit" at Ede the Dutch record names is not among them; ◐ a candidate is Gerrit Jan Broekhuis, baker, who married Jacob's sister Jansje in 1940. None of the three is shown to have been a policeman

Evidence: ⚠︎ Unidentified

The young soldier in Edinburgh

Unit or role: "with me at Arnhem"; questioned by MI6 about Murphy, Walsh and Donaldson

About: ⚠︎ Murphy only, unnamed (page)

The British index to Dutch helpers, compiled by Allied military intelligence and now TNA WO 208/5476 and 5477, lists roughly 8,000 people with an award grade from 1 (the head of a major escape line, seven people) down to 5 and 6, which were the common ones. Grades 1 to 4 carried the American Medal of Freedom; grade 5 carried the Eisenhower Certificate. These are the people in this site found in it so far.

Kruimel's grade 4 is the American Medal of Freedom he is known to have received in 1947, and his address is the Utrecht hospital where he worked. The rest are read from the photographed pages (the index and its pages); where a name and its address or grade sit on different lines, the reading is marked ◐. The Achterveld entry is the farm's own address, under the name Jacob. The columns on the scan are not quite aligned: the address column sits half a line above the names, so the rows are read in sequence; the entry above his, 22222 "VEERMAN Dick" of Volendam, carries "(Posth.)" level with the name, and whether that mark is Dick's or Jacob's cannot be settled from the page. ◐ Jacob's own American file is graded 5 "posth." on its cover and on the typed questionnaire (cover; p. 8), so the British mark is more likely his too; Dick's death has not been looked for. By the family's account a brother of Jacob's and a nephew were held at Neuengamme (RTV Utrecht).

⚠︎ Baron Mackay is not in the index. The page runs MACHIELSEN to MACKLENBERGH with no Mackay between them (MAAL to MIJNHEER). Nor is any Esveld called Gerald or Coen: the two indexed are an Esveld-Strubbe on Amerongen's main street and Berend Albert Esveld of Amerongen, indexed at Leersum, the address the British had for him after the liberation rather than where he was active.

In 1945 and 1946 the US Army's escape and evasion service, MIS-X, sent Dutch helpers a questionnaire, and table 13 asked for the Allied men they had helped: name, number, dates, who brought them and who took them on. The files are at the US National Archives (Record Group 498, series 5709392), and these are the ones that record Tom, or his party. Some were filled in by the helpers themselves; others were written up by the American office's interviewers, by a relative (Bram Baar's, by A. Baar after his death), or compiled from British lists (Van der Vlist's table); and Van Vemde's and Maljers's do not name Tom at all. They were found through a tip from Lisan Koppenol, a Dutch researcher. ⚠︎ They were written from memory, months or a year afterwards: his number is often wrong, and Mrs Esveld's calls him a lieutenant.

Gijs van Zijtveld and Jan Dijkstra of Achterveld, who brought him to the Veerman farm and took him on, have no file in the series; in 1946 both were in the Indies (Gijs van Zijtveld; Jan Dijkstra).

Tom was one name among many in these tables. Each list below is every Allied man the page names, as written there (spellings, ranks and units as on the page, typing slips aside, with home towns but not street addresses). Some lists cover the whole war at that house, not only the weeks Tom was there; that is said where it applies.

• Dove Jan (p. 4): Sgt Eugene Glyzinski, USA, an air gunner, of Chicago, and Lt W. Mallard, USA, of Trenton, North Carolina, both shot down on 29 April 1944; "Murphy Kelly Schotland and a friend of his", paratroopers, October, six days; and two more paratroopers, November–December, 42 days: Bill Prince, a sergeant, of Manchester, and Jack "Lynx", an ex-sergeant and boxer, of Liverpool. ◐ Maljers names the same two as "W.Prince" and "J.Lynch" (below).
• Pieter Hoekstra (p. 9):
  • Sgt R. Holvoet, SAS, dropped above Garderen about 3 October and arrested a fortnight later, "gefusilleerd op 9 April '45 te Zwolle" (shot at Zwolle on 9 April 1945, p. 8; ⚠︎ van Looyengoed, the Elspeet history and two prayer cards have 10 April, his page);
  • "Steve", a wireless operator, and "Robert", a bomb-aimer, RCAF, about 7 October;
  • "Spud" and "Tom", privates, First Airborne, about 16 October;
  • two glider pilots, one of them "Godfey Freeman", and a major, First Airborne, about 28 October;
  • a Dutch lieutenant of the Irene Brigade, about 2 November;
  • and Lt J. de Stoppelaar Bleidestijn, SAS, in April 1945.
• The Van Nispens (p. 3): everyone hidden at De Ruif in 1944, not only those there with Tom. Six Americans: Frank McGlinchey, William H. McDonald, Walter Mallard, Robert Fisher, Eugene Glysinski and William O'Barr; two Canadians of the RCAF, Robert Gelfand of Winnipeg and Larry McElroy of Mattawa, Ontario; four RAMC officers and men, Major Longland, A.E. Allen, P.S. Allenby and Lipmann Kessel; and three paratroopers, H.D. [K.D.] Banwell of Islington, S. Walsh of Leicester and Th. Murphy of Kelty.
• Jeane van Galen (p. 3): the same men in the same order, adding R.K. Bailey, RAF, and William Lalley, USA, and after them "Maurits, Jupitair, Ham, Bacon".
• Ima van Eysinga (p. 3): Sam Walsh and Tom Murphy, 156 Bn, from Kruimel at De Ruif, and James Hardy, RAMC, from Mrs van Asbeck-Patijn at Leuvenum; all three on to Joop Migchelsen and Eric Blok.
• Joop Migchelsen (p. 3): the six of Kijkuit, with ranks and numbers: James Branford, RAF, of Rottingdean, Sussex; James Hardy, RAMC, attached to 10th Parachute Battalion, of Adderbury, Oxfordshire; Bernard John Frederik Haller, Glider Pilot Regiment, of Bamford, near Sheffield; Samuel Walsh, of Leicester; Thomas Murphy, of Kelty; and K.D. Banwell, A Company, 10th Battalion, of Islington.
• Z. van der Vlist (p. 3): the same six: Thomas Murphy, Samuel Walsh, James Hardy, John Haller, James Branford and "Iex" [Tex] Banwell.
• Bram Baar (p. 3): the same six, with numbers ("James Brandford", Sgt), and "one, name unknown".
• J. van Vemde (p. 8): few names. The first man he found, on 18 September, was "Anderson", as far as he remembered, with a broken leg; after the failed crossing, twenty men in the woods under a captain "Redman (of een dergelijke naam)" (or some such name); and among the twelve in his hiding place a bomber pilot called John, a glider pilot, and "een filmartist uit Hollywood" (a film actor from Hollywood).
• The Veermans (pp. 3, 5): Thomas Murphy and James Hardy; before them Flight Lieutenant R.D. Ward and W.Q. McGeachin, a navigator, RAF; and four more men of the RAF "waar geen gegevens van zijn" (of whom there are no details).
• Mrs Esveld (p. 5): Tom and "James, or Jim", Hardy; and after them Ross Stoner, RAAF, a Mosquito man from Adelaide; "Bill", a parachutist from Scotland, who came with Henk and Wim on 9 January 1945; and K. Buckley, in March.
• Flip Esveld (p. 10): Berry, of Vernon, B.C., Canadian Scottish; Marcel Briere, of Albertville, Saskatchewan; "Can. Red X. 'Bill' paratrooper from Arnhemlanding"; "George", "Engl. Spy"; A.C. Stearns Jr. and J.M. Geary, USA; D.J. McDonald, RAF, of London; F/O R. Stoner, of Adelaide; K. Buckley; "Shelderup R. Major, Can. Scottish"; "Jonny"; "Jimmy and Tom, 2 Engl. paratroopers from Arnhem" (◐ Hardy and Murphy, by our reading of the names); "Doc", an Italian Canadian; "Charles, English Capt. Doctor"; four others, names unknown; and two Canadians, Christie and Carl, and Jack, "English detective".
• Adriaan Maljers (p. 18): "Major Scheldrop, B.Phorter, Harry Zwarchz, B.Schell", of Ardmore, Oklahoma, "J.Lynch", of Liverpool, and "W.Prince", of Manchester.