The Hoogland family

About: 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.

Unit or role: Nico Hoogland: "CAWTON Group and Intelligence Service", known to the Allied men as "Jan O.K. en Amo" (his questionnaire, p. 2); a carpenter's journeyman (timmermansknecht) when he married in 1913 (his marriage).

Where: Kersweg B 514, Amerongen (his questionnaire, p. 2).

Evidence: ✓ Nico Hoogland's helper file with the Americans, US National Archives 286661884 (pp. 2, 5–7); ✓ his birth and marriage; ✓ his Vught camp card; ✓ the British index of Dutch helpers (page H-17) and the American list of Grade 5 certificates (page 72); ✓ Adriaan Maljers's papers (pp. 13, 16, 18); ⚠︎ Porter alone, writing fifty years on, for the three Canadians (Porter, pp. 136–137); ✓ seven other helpers' forms from the Cawton group and its guides (below), and twelve more that use his pseudonym (below), with a thirteenth, Diepeveen's, that may not mean him.

Family. ✓ Nicolaas Hoogland was born at Schagen on 30 January 1888, the son of Arie Hoogland and Leuke Visser (his birth, Schagen 1888 no. 7, index record). His questionnaire of 29 May 1945 gives the same day and place (p. 2). On 27 August 1913, at Opperdoes, "Nicolaas Hoogland", 25, born at Schagen, a timmermansknecht, son of Arie Hoogland, a tailor, and Leuke Visser, married Aafje Susanna Koomen, 21, born at Medemblik (his marriage, Opperdoes 1913, deed 9, index record). In May 1945 his questionnaire gives his wife as "M.C. v.d. LAAR", aged 44 (the age not certain on the scan), and nine children, the eldest 28 and the youngest four weeks old (p. 2). No record held says what became of the first marriage.

Vught, 1943. ✓ The camp at Vught (KL Herzogenbusch) kept a card for "Hoogland, Nicolaas", of "Amerongen, Kersweg B.514", born at Schagen on 30 January 1888, prisoner 7298, block 17, with "Binnengekomen 23 Sept. 1943" (brought in on 23 September 1943) and, typed more faintly, "Vrijgelaten: 22 Dec. 194?" (released; the last figure of the year is doubtful, see below) (the card, read on the image). ◐ The release year is a reading of one faint figure: it is typed in a fainter, different face from the rest, and the last figure looks more like a 5 than the 3 of "1943" above it, but the archived transcription leaves it as "194?" because it cannot be settled on this scan. If it is 1945, it cannot be a release from Vught, which was evacuated in September 1944, so either the card is wrong or the entry is something else; if it is 1943, it is a release three months after he came in. Against the 1943 reading is only the look of that one figure, so 22 December 1943 is the date that would fit, our guess and not the card's. The card gives no reason for his arrest, and nothing found says why he was taken.

The CAWTON group. His group was CAWTON, Hendrik van Loenen's network (Hendrik van Loenen; the British index has "v.LOENEN, Hendrik … Code name: CAWTON" on page L-19, and van Loenen's own report is quoted below). The account of his work for the Americans:

Mr. HOOGLAND was the central address for helping Allied personnel. During the last months he received a salary from the Cawton group. The Tommies were fed partly out of his own store. The HOOGLAND family is now living on the rations. Mr. HOOGLAND has given various jackets to the Tommies, and also a pair of shoes and a man's suit.

— US National Archives · RG 498, helper file of Nico Hoogland · answer to question 10, 29 May 1945 · p. 6 · the archive's copy

A note in the file adds:

Mr. HOOGLAND has been indicated by me to take the lead of the crossing. From me he got a monthly payment of 400 guilders and he received victuals which I could dispose of.

— US National Archives · RG 498, helper file of Nico Hoogland · advice to No. 00266 · p. 5

◐ The note does not say who "me" is. Hendrik van Loenen's report in another helper's file says he engaged Hoogland for the crossing (the report, p. 14 of the Cornelisse-van Brink file):

I had meanwhile sought contact with Frans Hals and it was agreed that I would arrange the crossing of the evaders. For this I engaged Jan O.K. (Mr N. Hoogland of Amerongen).

Dutch originalInmiddels had ik contact gezocht met Frans Hals en was overeengekomen, dat ik de crossing der evaders zou regelen. Hiervoor had ik Jan O.K. (heer N. Hoogland uit Amerongen) aangenomen.

— Hendrik van Loenen · "Rapport van Cawton", p. 2 · in the helper file of E. Cornelisse-van Brink · p. 14 · the archive's copy

So the "me" is most likely van Loenen, and Hoogland's engagement is the arrangement with Dick Kragt ("Frans Hals") that van Loenen describes. The same report is attached to one other helper's form, Wilhelm van Hernen's, so it is not Mrs Cornelisse-van Brink's own account.

A pseudonym and a place. "Jan O.K." is also written "Jan Oké" and "Jan Oke" on the forms. J. T. M. (Annie) de Klerk, a courier of Schalkwijk (the Annie de Klerk of the couriers' list below), and A. A. Copier both give his own name as Hoogland, at Amerongen, and that he worked with Bob and a "van Loenen" whose first name is "Luck" on Copier's form: "Jan Oké" (eigen naam Hoogland te Amerongen, (deze werkte samen met Bob en Luck van Loenen) (Copier, p. 2). On de Klerk's form it reads "Jan Oké" (eigen naam Hoogland) te Amerongen, (deze werkte samen met Bob en B/Luck van Loenen, the first letter of the name typed over, so "Buck" or "Luck" (de Klerk, p. 4); both checked on the image. ◐ "Luck" or "Luuk" van Loenen is Hendrik van Loenen's brother Herman Lucas, "Alex", by our reading: none of the three forms below says Luuk and Alex are one man. Kluiters's list of field names gives both 'ALEX' and 'LUUK' as "LOENEN, van, H.L." (Kluiters, under both names, though his dates for that man differ from Kew's, see Hendrik's page), and Adrianus van Wijnen writes of "Luuc van Loenen" and his illness, with no first name (p. 5), as Hendrik's letters give Alex an illness (Davos). Hendrik wrote of "mijn broer H.L. van Loenen (Alex)" (my brother H.L. van Loenen (Alex)) (p. 36), Adriaan Maljers of "Luuk van Loenen" (p. 18), and the British index has "v.LOENEN, Herman Lucas / Alex. Captain." (page L-19); more on Hendrik van Loenen. ✓ "Hoogland" was not his name alone: Jan Hovestad of Rhenen, born in 1907, of the L.O. at Rhenen, gave "Hoogland" as the name the Allied men knew him by, on a form of 20 July 1945 (his questionnaire, p. 2, read on the image). His form says he "always worked with Mr. MAGAUER", and Johann Magauer's report has "Jan HOVENSTAD" helping him at Rhenen from 18 September 1944, caring for a wounded Tommy and burying the Allied dead taken from the Rhine until the compulsory evacuation of 21 October (Magauer's report of 18 June 1945, p. 7, read on the image). ⚠︎ So a bare "Mr. HOOGLAND" on a Rhenen helper's form may mean either man.

Jack and Bill, October 1944. Maljers's note of 3 July 1945 has "Bill, Jack and Bob" from Utrecht hidden around Langbroek and Wijk bij Duurstede at the end of October 1944, and "Afterwards Jack and Bill went with Dirk to Hoogland in Amerongen, who later on took care of them" (p. 13; Dirk is Adriaan Maljers). ⚠︎ The pages of Jack Lynch and William Prince take these to be the two paratroopers; other forms have Lynch and Prince brought to C. Cornelisse in the Rijnstraat, Amerongen, instead, and those pages set out the three accounts.

✓ Seven helpers' forms show him paying, ordering and receiving for the group:

• Money. Joop Doornebosch of Leersum "received 200 guilders from Mr. HOOGLAND for his various expenses" (his file, p. 22; Joop Doornebosch); H. van Doesburg of Rhenen "received once an amount of 400 guilders from Mr. HOOGLAND" and lost his bicycle in the Cawton group's service (p. 5); Herman Hendriks of Rhenen, who brought men on, "received 300 guilders per month from Mr. HOOGLAND during the months of March and April" and gave his address on the form as "p/a Hoogland, Kersweg B 514, Amerongen" (the enclosure, p. 6; the form, p. 2).
• Orders and shelter. A. M. C. Lankwerden-Kuypers wrote that for her transports from Amerongen to Vreeswijk, "I received orders from Jan Oké (Hoogland from Amerongen), who knows the names" (p. 4); Gerardus Schoots's house "was always a shelter for people of the Cawton-group, such as the following persons: N. Hoogland, H. van Loenen (Bob), A. Rutgers, H. Hendriks" (p. 7); Abraham Roos, who "provided food and special papers for overcrossing", ticked "N. Hoogland Kersweg Amerongen" among helpers he knew (p. 3).
• Handing men on. Jacob van Dooleweerd of Amerongen (Utrechtsche Straatweg B 280, p. 5) wrote on 28 May 1945 about "Bill, parachutist" (p. 7).
  • Bill "arrived at the house of van DOOLEWEERD end of February or beginning of March. He was brought by Mr. HOOGLAND", and was lodged five or six days "until he was collected by Wim BUSSINK (alias Wiep HOOGEVEEN) for the crossing".
  • His text sends the reader to the supplement of Mrs Esveld-Strubbe, and ◐ the "Bill" of her supplement fits: a Scottish parachutist who came to her house on 9 January with Henk and Wim, stayed to about the middle of February and was then "taken to some other people" (her supplement, p. 5; Mrs Esveld-Strubbe).
  • ◐ That is the one link found between the Esveld household, where Murphy stayed until 2 January, and Hoogland: if the two "Bill"s are one man, he came to the same house a week after Murphy left and was brought by Hoogland to van Dooleweerd at the end of February or beginning of March. Mrs Esveld-Strubbe's supplement does not name who took him on.

✓ Twelve further helpers' forms use his pseudonym, each checked on the image on 15 October 2026. One gives the real name beside it, as the de Klerk and Copier forms do (above): a courier of Adriaan Maljers at Langbroek lists "Jan Oké (eigen naam Hooglang [sic]) te Amerongen" among the helpers she knew (her form, p. 4). Her name is not given in the text here, since she was born after 1925; the link is to the file as the archive names it.

Who handed men on to him. Four helpers of the Barneveld, Scherpenzeel and Veenendaal line name him as the next stage (van Ginkel, van Schuppen, van Bentum and Caspers); the two van de Lagemaats of the same line list his name; and a Rhenen man had him fetch a parachutist.

• ✓ Rijk van Ginkel of Scherpenzeel, "Peter", a district commander: "Handed them most of the time over to Bill (Wildeboer) at Ede, Jan Oke, at Amerongen", about 150 pilots in all, and "Jan Oke transported the pilots he received from van Ginkel to Tiel and Wijk bij Duurstede" (his form, p. 13). His table has "Jan Oke, Amerongen" in the passed-on column, with "Frans Hals (Captain Kay) Barneveld" as the source (p. 14).
• ✓ Gerrit van Schuppen: after the failed crossing of 17/18 November 1944 about forty men came to the Barneveld area, and once Captain Kay had taken up contact with the Biesbosch, "By people of van Ginkel … and of Group Cor Lof the men were transported to resp. Amerongen and Scherpenzeel, where they were taken over by Jan Oke", 25 to 30 men, until the liberation (his section 13, p. 5).
• ✓ H. van Bentum of Woudenberg, "Gerrit", under van Ginkel ("Peter"). His letter of 18 January 1946 says that from the end of December 1944 until March 1945 he collected 15 to 20 times, three to seven men each time, about 80 in all, at Barneveld and Scherpenzeel and took them to the Amerongen, Leersum or Doorn area; of the names he could remember he adds "I got these persons on Peter's orders and handed them over to guides of Jan Oke, Bill and Barend" (the letter, p. 18).
  • The five names he remembers, typed in a column, are Capt. Charles B. Noble, Serg. K.D. Banwell, L. Davison, F.V. Moore and W.A. Elroij.
  • His questionnaire has the same five, in the same order and with "(plus abt. 50)" under them, as one block in section 13: received at Scherpenzeel, from "Veldhuizen W." and "from 'Peter' (R.v.Ginkel)", and passed on to "Jan Oke" (nick-name), Amerongen (the table, p. 9); the page is shown below.
  • ⚠︎ The form lists only the initials and surnames, with no dates or places for the men, and its columns do not line up row by row, so it does not say which of the five went to Hoogland's guides and which to the others. It says nothing of Murphy. Charles Noble, Leslie Davison and Victor Moore have pages that cite the same letter.

• ✓ Roelof and Willem van de Lagemaat of Woudenberg, on near-identical forms of June 1946, list the same four helpers they knew; Willem's handwritten Dutch copy has "GERRIT - H v Bentum", "PETER - R v Ginkel", "IDENBURG - Huize Maarn" and "JAN OKE - Amerongen", and Roelof's differs only in spelling ("GERRET", "Jan Oke") (Roelof, p. 4; Willem, p. 4; typed copies on p. 2 of each).
  • Roelof helped carry five men with Gerrit from Scherpenzeel to Huize Maarn "half Februari" (mid-February) and brought bicycles back; Willem brought bicycles back.
  • Neither says they met him: it shows the same chain knew his name.
• ✓ A. H. Rysemus of Rhenen, on his evacuation to Elst, found a parachutist dropped near Arnhem in the woods, took him to Gerardus Schoots's house, and "in the evening was fetched by Jan O.K. and taken to the 'Put' in Amerongen" (Rysemus, p. 2). The form gives no date and no name for the man. Schoots's house is already above as a Cawton shelter.
• ✓ Nellie Caspers of Driebergen ("Elsa"), who took "the evaders from VEENENDAAL to Jan O.K. (No. 00266), among others: HALLEY, Mr. VAN and 3 Armenians" (her enclosure, p. 5). The number is the A.B. number on Hoogland's own file (p. 6).
  • ◐ Her form, on a faint line, gives Driebergen as her address (Welgelegenlaan 12, Rijsenburg) and her birth as 3 July 1924 at Driebergen, both faint (her form, p. 3, read on the enlarged image).
  • The enclosure has no date for the Veenendaal runs and no first name for "HALLEY"; ⚠︎ whether he is the Haller handed to a Hoogland in March (below) is not shown.

Others who list him. ✓ Maria Verloop of The Hague, born in 1917, lists "Jan Oke' & Bob van Loenen, Amerongen" among the helpers she knew (her form, p. 2). The form has no account of her own work, and nothing in it says she carried for him or met him.

Who carried for him. ✓ Three couriers' forms, two of them named here.

• Annie de Klerk of Schalkwijk, born in 1922, a courier from the third week of January 1945: "She took a letter to Jan O.K. at AMERONGEN" and four days later one to Doorn, and "On 12 Mar she took a sender to Jan O.K." (her enclosure, p. 5; her form, p. 3).
  • ✓ She is the J. T. M. de Klerk of the pseudonym section above (Johanna Theodora Maria, "Annie"): her second form, of 2 December 1945, has the same birth date and place, the same Schalkwijk address and the same Hilversum next of kin as this one of 13 July 1945, so the two forms count as one helper (the 2 December form, p. 4).
• Philippina de Roder of Rhenen, born in 1923, known as "Iris": "a courier of the information service of Jan O.K. and of course through this for Cawton" from January 1945 until the end of the war, twice a day by bicycle to Barneveld and also to Vreeswijk, Dieren, Zeist, Scherpenzeel and Veenendaal. She had f. 5 a trip at first and later "f. 100.00 monthly from Jan O.K. or Alex", and wore out two pairs of shoes (her form, p. 2).
  • "Alex" may be the man the action report has estimating the evaders and working an S-phone from the house (After); ◐ no source ties the two. ◐ The British index has "v.LOENEN, Herman Lucas / Alex. Captain." (Grade 3), directly above Hendrik van Loenen ("Code name: CAWTON"), at the same address (page L-19), so a Cawton man was called Alex; that does not show he is the "Alex" of de Roder's form or of the action report, and Maljers's note has another "Alex" taking a pilot on near Tiel (p. 13).
    • Hendrik's letter of 1946 names him "mijn broer H.L. van Loenen (Alex)" (my brother H.L. van Loenen (Alex)) (p. 36), the "Luuk" or "Luck" of the helpers' forms (above).
• A young woman of Rhenen, a courier "for the information-service of Jan O.K." from February 1945, carrying "information from Bob and Jan O.K. to Doorn, sometimes to Scherpenzeel and Barneveld", f. 5 a trip from Jan O.K. (her form, p. 2). She is not named here: she was born after 1925.

From the south bank of the Lek, a thirteenth form, and a doubt. ⚠︎ Jan Caesar Diepeveen of Kampen, born at Groningen on 4 June 1919 and known to the Allied men at "Den Oven", Beusichem, listed "Jan Oke" among the helpers he knew by nickname only (his form of 11 June 1946, English copy, p. 6; the Dutch original, p. 8; both image-checked). - His work was to take airmen across the Lek near Beusichem at night; by day they were gathered "by Mr. Frans van Rooyen at Wijk bij Duurstede", and from Beusichem they went on to Tiel and over the Waal, guided by Jo van Coevorden, a farmer at Buren (the table, p. 7; image-checked). Van Ginkel's form has Jan Oke's men go on to Tiel and Wijk bij Duurstede (above), so ◐ the Amerongen line and this one meet at the Wijk bank. - Box 12 of the typed copy has "Many others too" whose names and addresses he does not know, "f.i. Mieky Elisabeth; Mien; Hannes v. Mourik; Jan Oke", then Rijk van der Bol of Rhenen and the Utrecht "kraakploeg", all "very active helpers". The handwritten Dutch original has a bracket the typist dropped: "Jan Oké - (Van Rooyen uit Wijk bij Duurstede)". - ⚠︎ So the form does not show that its Jan Oke is Nico Hoogland. The bracket may place the nickname with a Van Rooyen of Wijk bij Duurstede, the man the same form has gathering the airmen there, or it may be an aside about him; the writer says he knows no address for any of them. It is left out of the twelve above.

Murphy was hidden in the same village over the same Christmas, at the Esvelds', from 23 or 24 December to 2 January (Hardy has the 23rd, Mrs Esveld the 24th), by Mrs Esveld's statement and Hardy's report (her statement, p. 5; Hardy; Mrs Esveld-Strubbe); nothing puts him in this house. Hardy has himself and Murphy at an unnamed Amerongen house on the afternoon of 23 December, with Capt. Schjelderup, C.S.M. Berry and another private, "until after dark", before they were taken to the Esvelds (Hardy); whose house that was is not stated. ◐ By Porter and Maljers (below), the house took in Canadians of the party he set out with on 2 January.

◐ The closest link between Hoogland's line and Murphy's party is two names: Capt. Charles Noble and Sgt. K. D. Banwell are on the list of names van Bentum remembers handing on, to guides of Jan Oke among others (p. 18), and Doornebosch has "Dr. NOBLE" and "Tex, from California" sheltered at Leersum from about the end of November and then going to Amerongen after three or four weeks (p. 22); Schjelderup lost "Capt. NOBLE, Sgt. TEX (?), Pte. MURPHY" in the firefight of 2/3 January (Charles Noble; Tex Banwell). Neither form says they reached Hoogland's house.

The Canadians, Christmas 1944. Three sources give the Hooglands a share of the Canadians who came to Amerongen before Christmas, and they do not agree on how many:

• ⚠︎ Bob Porter, writing fifty years on, gives only the surname: "two of the other fellows were taken to the family Esveld and the three others to the family of Hoogland", while he and Roger were taken into the Cornelissens' house (Porter, pp. 136–137; Bob Porter; Mr and Mrs Cornelissen).
• ✓ Adriaan Maljers, who brought the men to Amerongen and went with the crossing, in his note of 3 July 1945: he fetched seven persons from Bilthoven and Zeist (the seven soldiers of his record of service), and "These 7 persons went to "dive Under" at Cornelissen, Esveld Jr., Esveld Sr. and Hoogland. They lodged at these several houses from just before Christmas 44 till 2nd January 45" (p. 13; Gerald Esveld).
• ✓ Maljers again, in his statement: "At the address of Hoogland 6 Canadians were sheltered in the month of December" (p. 18); his Dutch original has "Bij Hoogland zijn er in de maand December alleen 6 canadezen ondergebracht", with "alleen" (only), set beside his remark that he never worked with Luuk van Loenen on pilot care (p. 22).

◐ So Porter's Hooglands were very probably Nico Hoogland's household on the Kersweg: Maljers names "Hoogland" in Amerongen, and Hoogland was the central address of the group (above). Neither Maljers nor Nico Hoogland's own file names the men who slept there.

The plan of 30 December. Maljers's statement has a raid on his headquarters at Langbroek on 30 December 1944, and then:

That very evening I went to my contact-address at Amerongen and had there an interview with Hoogland and a few other people. Because the Betuwe was inundated the plan was made to cross the gang of soldiers, consisting of 14 men, through the Betuwe to Doodenwaard.

— Adriaan Maljers · statement, English translation · US National Archives, RG 498, helper file of A. Maljers, p. 16 · the text

A patrol sent out on 1 January came back saying the way was easy (p. 16; Adriaan Maljers; Weine). Maljers went with the party, and Hardy has himself and Murphy leaving the Esvelds on bicycles at 1300 on 2 January for a ferry on the Rhine (Hardy). By Maljers, about two kilometres above Opheusden they went up the dyke, and "Whe [sic] had been climbing the dyke a bit when we were suddenly fired at" (p. 16), and "they were taken by the Germans near the Linge for crossing Opheusden-Doodewaard" (p. 13). The night is told on Amerongen and the last night.

"Bill", February 1945. The one other link found between the Esveld household and Hoogland is a later man, "Bill", who came to Mrs Esveld's house on 9 January, a week after Murphy left. ◐ If he is van Dooleweerd's "Bill", Hoogland brought him to van Dooleweerd at the end of February or beginning of March (above); Mrs Esveld-Strubbe says only that he was taken "to some other people".

Bernard Haller, March 1945. W. G. Landzaat of Rhenen wrote on 18 June 1945 that the glider pilot "Sgt. Johnnie HALLER", Murphy's fellow escaper of the Kijkuit and Kootwijkerbroek weeks, at the "Put" (◐ the one at Rhenen) from about the middle of February, "was eventually handed over to Mr. HOOGLAND the first week in March" (Landzaat's enclosure, p. 5, checked on the image).

• ⚠︎ He gives no first name and no place. Nico Hoogland of Amerongen fits, as the group's address for Allied men; so does Jan Hovestad of Rhenen, whom the Allied men knew as "Hoogland" (above; his questionnaire). Nothing found says which.
• Cornelis Niessen of the Rijnstraat has Haller "in March from Chris": he "arranged for shelter for 4 days and then he crossed with Chris" (Niessen's enclosure, p. 7). Landzaat's chain ends with a Hoogland and Niessen's begins with Chris; neither form joins the two, and Bernard Haller has the whole chain.

The Americans' action report, from the conference of 22 October 1945, has, by Alex's estimate, between 15 and 20 evaders staying in the house for short periods, "a claering [sic] house for intelligence information", two of them for a month and a half; "Alex" also worked an S-phone from it. "Among those who stayed for 2 days were Capt. King and 8 men who came out over the Biesbosch", and Hoogland "participated in a night-time crossing of the RHINE … at a time when 1500 Germans were quartered in AMERONGEN … with Capt. KING, an Intelligence operative, and eight other military personnel" (p. 7). It recommended him for grade 3, "poss. after confirmation visit from I.S. 9" (p. 7). He asked for work in the reconstruction, and for shoes, clothes and a man's bicycle (p. 6).

The crossing with Capt. King. ◐ "Capt. King" is Gilbert Kirschen, by Kessel, who has "Fabian King", "whose real name was Kirschen" (Kessel, Surgeon at Arms, pp. 179–190). The action report gives no date; the other accounts:

• ✓ Chris Cornelisse's questionnaire: he "helped King to find a boat with which they could cross the Rhine. This was about the middle of January and they should go via Tiel", and rowed them across in two trips (p. 20).
• ◐ Kessel has the party wait at the Huis te Maarn for a boat to meet them near Tiel, go on to Amerongen, drag a manure boat from a frozen pond and cross in two trips, then find the flooded Betuwe and no one at the farm where Jan Stam should have met them; the book gives no dates.
• ◐ Noordman has the party at Maarn again on 24 January, and Hackett, hidden at Ede, has the party that had started off with "Sam" (Kirschen) "failed completely and been forced to come right back, almost to their starting point" (Noordman, pp. 313–314; Hackett, p. 149). Whether this is the crossing Hoogland's file describes is not shown.

Certificates. ✓ The British index of Dutch helpers has "14751 HOOGLAND, Nico, Kersweg B 514, Amerongen" (page H-17, read on the image; the index). ◐ Its grade column sits about a line out of step with the names, as on its other pages, and read that way his grade is 5. The American list of Grade 5 certificates has "(1866) HOOGLAND, Nico, Kersweg B 514, Amerongen" (page 72); a second helper is listed at the same address on page 5 of that list (page 5), not named here because her dates are not known, and the list does not say how she was related to the household. Other Hooglands on the list are of Olst and elsewhere.

No record of his death has been found.

• How many Canadians. Three to the Hooglands in Porter (pp. 136–137); six, "alleen" (only) six in the Dutch, in Maljers's statement (p. 18; p. 22); seven men spread over four houses, Hoogland's among them, in his note of 3 July 1945 (p. 13).
• His grade. Grade 3 recommended by the Americans' action report, pending a visit from I.S. 9 (p. 7); Grade 5 on the American list of certificates and, ◐ by our reading of the columns, in the British index (page 72; page H-17).
• When he left Vught. "22 Dec. 194?": the last figure of the year is doubtful: more like a 5 than a 3 on the image, "194?" in the archived transcription; 1945 cannot be a release from Vught, evacuated in September 1944, so 1943 is our guess only (the card).
• When Maljers first met the Amerongen organisation. His note of 3 July 1945 has Jack and Bill taken "with Dirk to Hoogland in Amerongen" at the end of October 1944 (p. 13); his statement of 3 December 1945 has "I met with the organisation at Amerongen in December 1944 for the first time", after sheltering men at Cornelisse's address (p. 18).
  • The Dutch original has "Met de ploeg in Amerongen maakte ik defenitief [sic] kennis in December 1944" (p. 22).
  • ⚠︎ The two do not sit together; the statement may mean its first meeting with the Cawton people as a group, which the sources do not say.
• Which "Mr. HOOGLAND". ⚠︎ Landzaat's "Mr. HOOGLAND" of March 1945 may be Nico Hoogland or Jan Hovestad, known as "Hoogland" (Landzaat, p. 5; Hovestad, p. 2). The forms that give his address or full name (Hendriks, de Klerk, Copier, the courier at Langbroek, van Loenen's report) mean Nico.
• Which "Jan Oke" Diepeveen means. ⚠︎ The Dutch original of his form puts "(Van Rooyen uit Wijk bij Duurstede)" after the name, which the typed English copy leaves out (p. 8; p. 6). Not settled: it may be another man with the nickname, or Hoogland's stage seen from the Wijk side.
• Which of van Bentum's men went on to Hoogland. His letter says he "handed them over to guides of Jan Oke, Bill and Barend" (letter, p. 18).
  • The questionnaire passes the five names to "Jan Oke" at Amerongen, and further down has "Escorted (20) pilots to Ede" and "(20) pilots to Doorn", with the passed-on cells "Ede, Bill and Barend", Wiegeraad, Maarn and Huize Maarn (table, p. 9).
  • ◐ Jan Oke is certainly one of the stages; which of the named men went to his guides is not shown.
• Van Bentum's 18 September. His table puts "18 Sep 44" beside the first twenty pilots escorted to Ede (table, p. 9).
  • D. Wildeboer of Ede, "Bill" on van Ginkel's form, wrote that van Bentum "has not turned over any allied personnel to me" on that date, and that he first received men from that direction on 15 November 1944, all of them, for the crossing of 18 November, adding "Mr. van Bentum made a mistake with his information to you" (Wildeboer's letter, p. 3; van Ginkel, p. 13).
  • ⚠︎ It concerns the Ede end, not Hoogland, and leaves van Bentum's dates for the Scherpenzeel men open.

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