Pte Sam Walsh

11 Nov 1918 – ?

Pte Samuel Peter Walsh (4389317)

About: 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 with him on the 24th, Walsh his own party split on the 25th), and crossed the rivers on 6/7 March 1945.

Unit or role: "Bren Gunner with C-Coy of the 156 Para Bn" (his words); No. 1 on the Bren of his section in 11 Platoon, C Company, under Lt Donaldson (the compiler's note on his page; the report itself says only "Bren Gunner with C-Coy"); apprentice engineer in peacetime, with 7 years 11 months' army service at March 1945 (same).

Where: 35 Jarron Street, Leicester, the private address on his report (same); ⚠︎ Darnall, Sheffield, the address he gave his Dutch hosts (below).

Evidence: ✓ his MI9 report of 7 March 1945, as transcribed by the Pegasus Archive; the Kew entries WO 208/5433/14, WO 208/3352/2386, WO 208/5275/1060 and WO 208/5273/2689, none digitised; the helpers' own papers in the US National Archives, cited below.

The compiler's note on his Pegasus Archive page, citing an escape report, the Parachute Regiment's transfer and enlistment book and a parachute course report, gives:

• born 11 November 1918, "from Leicester"; his report gives the date of birth too, and the Kew catalogue has it (WO 208/5433/14). The place of birth is not stated anywhere we hold;
• enlisted in the Green Howards on 1 April 1937 and served in India with the 2nd Battalion, which his report squares with "Army Service: 7 years, 11 months" at March 1945;
• volunteered for Airborne Forces, was posted to the 151 Parachute Battalion at New Delhi and completed Parachute Course No. 29, begun on 27 September 1942, and saw service with them in North Africa and Italy (Walsh's page, preamble). ◐ The compiler's note is the only source for the dates before 1944 and for "North Africa and Italy"; the reports it cites are not held.

His peacetime trade, by his own report, was apprentice engineer. Liesbeth Verweij, companion of Jkvr Ima van Eysinga, in whose house he and Murphy stayed in October 1944, remembered him as "een machinist met aspiraties om het verder te brengen" (an engineer with ambitions to get on) (Noordman, p. 302, quoting her); and Dove Jan's own list for the Americans has Murphy "and a friend of his / mechanical" (his file, p. 4). ◐ The "friend" is Walsh by the date, the escape from "'t Loo" and "both wounded on head".

His report names his stick: "Major POWELL, 'C' Coy, 156 Bn - Fate unknown. Pte. DRAKE, 'C' Coy, 156 Bn - Fate unknown", and gives the take-off as "Dakota, near GRANTHAM, 18 Sep 44, 1100 hours approx.", and the landing as "WOLFHEZE E 67 … 1400 hours approximately" (Walsh). The compiler's note adds Saltby aerodrome, aircraft 628 of the 314th Troop Carrier Group and DZ-Y, which is Ginkel Heath (same, preamble). Major Powell is the company commander.

On 21 September, "about midday on THURS 21 SEP", C Company attacked a German machine-gun position near Oosterbeek, and Walsh was beside Lt Donaldson and Sgt Joyce, "acting Platoon Serjeant":

we were manoeuvring to a flank in order to get a site for my Bren Gun when we received a burst of fire. Lt. DONALDSON was shot through the leg and arm and JOYCE through the chest while I sustained a scalp wound which laid me out for ten or fifteen minutes. When I recovered I did what I could for JOYCE, giving him his morphia, but he died shortly afterwards. I then managed to get Lt. DONALDSON to a house about twenty yards to the rear. By this time the Coy had withdrawn and a few minutes later the Germans advanced and DONALDSON and I were taken prisoner … I have not heard of Lt. DONALDSON since, though I have a suspicion that he was shot. I had not gone more than 10 or 12 yards from the house where I left him before I heard a single shot which definitely came from that house.

— MI9 · Pte S. Walsh, C Company, 156 Parachute Battalion · report of 7 March 1945 · the report

Murphy, in his handwritten memoir (c.1998), puts himself beside Donaldson with "Sam Welsh", the "Sam" written over "Sammy":

My Lt Mr Donaldson was badly hit on the thigh, and I got help and took him into a house, and got him a drink. The Gerries came into the house, then ran out again. Mr Donaldson suggested we surrender, as we had no AMMO and/or head for the RHINE. Another Soldier, Sam Welsh and I intended to carry the Officer, but the Gerries appeared again and immediately shot Mr Donaldson behind the ear. They then marched us off through the village of OOSTERBEK [sic] and eventually to STALAG IIB.

— Thomas Murphy, memoir, page 7, c.1998

On the manuscript the camp's number is two upright strokes before the B, which can be read as II or 11; Murphy's typed memoir has "STALAG 11B" (typed memoir, p. 2).

Walsh's report does not name Murphy at this point and does not say anyone else was in the house; Murphy's does not say who fired. ◐ The two accounts of the same minutes fit, and Murphy's own "Another Soldier, Sam Welsh" is the only place Murphy is put in that house. What happened to Donaldson, and the day he died, are on his page. ⚠︎ The National Archives' catalogue entry gives "Place captured: Wolfheze, Holland, 21 September 1944"; Wolfheze is where the report has him landing on the 18th, and the attack of the 21st is "in the neighbourhood of OOSTERBEEK" (WO 208/5433/14). ✗ Walsh was wrong about Joyce, if his Joyce is Sgt Patrick Joyce 4448773 (◐ the compiler's bracket is the only tie between the two): that man was a prisoner at Stalag 357 (his page).

The rest of the day, by his report:

• the Germans took him "with about a dozen other prisoners, all walking wounded" to what he believed was battalion headquarters, where an English-speaking German officer interrogated each in turn and "all I told him was my name, rank and number"; they spent the night in a garage with straw and a few blankets and "a few 'energy' tablets" for food;
• on 22 September a lorry took them to a hospital at Harskamp, where "the Dutch nursing sisters working there managed to produce" food, and that evening to the Het Loo hospital at Apeldoorn, in a British wing; sixty-four of them, searched, stripped and issued green field kit; he kept his compass and his sewn-in invasion money;
• about 2 October the party was moved to the Willem III barracks, where they gave their names to the medical RSM, Lionel Bryson, who "detailed all those who were able for various jobs in looking after the wounded"; the guards were Dutch SS, replaced after two days by older Wehrmacht men (Walsh).

The RSM had made it clear that for escape "it was every man for himself", and "Pte. MURPHY … of my Coy and I decided to make an attempt":

There was an unused building which stood near the wire fence guarding the enclosure and some distance from the buildings which we were occupying. It was unguarded except for an occasional patrol, so just at dusk on the 6 OCT, MURPHY and I took a stretcher as 'camouflage' and walked past the guard on our building as if going to carry out some detail. Once past him we made straight for the unused building and got inside. We lay there until dark and then slipped out through the door nearest the fence which we climbed over without difficulty.

— MI9 · Pte S. Walsh · report of 7 March 1945 · the report

Murphy remembered the same stretcher, and the haystack, the railway and the washing line that came after it (his memoir, pp. 10–11); the Dutch magazine has the same date, the 6th (Somford). Walsh's report has them set off west and, "after walking about 5 miles across country", rest until daylight. The same night is told from Murphy's side on Apeldoorn and the escape.

At daybreak on 7 October they "approached a farmhouse in the KOOTWIJK area". The farmer took them in and his wife gave them breakfast, and they were to stay until nine, when a friend who passed every morning came by: "From this point on my journey was arranged for me." That man, a member of the Underground whose name Walsh did not know, "spoke English and questioned us as to our identity", then took them to his poultry farm in the Kootwijk area for a week: "very deaf, married, with three sons aged 3, 5 and 6 approx. His wife also spoke good English." It was "fairly close to" the Apeldoorn–Amersfoort railway, so "our friend arranged with the Underground to find new billets" (Walsh).

✓ Noordman names the Underground man with the poultry farm: J.A.G. [sic] van Oldenbarneveld, genaamd Tullingh, "Dove Jan", at Assel, and says the farm was "regularly a staging post for various Allied men" (Noordman, pp. 139, 299; his page); ⚠︎ Walsh's "three sons aged 3, 5 and 6 approx." does not match his questionnaire, which has five children aged 24, 8, 7, 5 and 2 (p. 5). The questionnaire filled in for him for the Americans on 17 July 1945 records "2 Eng. parachutists, escaped from the hospital 't Loo, picked up by v. O. near Kootwijk" (p. 5); his table has "Murphy Kelly Schotland / and a friend of his / mechanical", six days, "Escaped out of hospital palace 't Loo. Both wounded on head", on to "Dr. Eskens N.Milligen (Alex)" (p. 4). ◐ "Dr. Eskens" is Dirk Eskes. ⚠︎ Pieter Hoekstra of Garderen lists two privates, "Spud" and "Tom", received from "Johan v Oldenbarnevelt" at about 16 October and passed to "Dr Kruimel, de Ruif Garderen" (his list, p. 9); the two forms do not agree on who took the pair on.

Walsh's report has them move "on 14 Oct after dark" to Garderen:

Here we were taken to a fairly large house on the outskirts of the village owned by a member of the Underground known to me as Uncle JOOP and often referred to as the Doctor by his friends. I believe he was a surgeon before the war. Living with him was the Burgermeister of a township near AMSTERDAM together with his wife and son.

— MI9 · Pte S. Walsh · report of 7 March 1945 · the report

It was De Ruif, the house of Dr Johannes Kruimel; the Burgemeester is Jhr Hubert van Nispen tot Sevenaer, mayor of Laren, whose family were living in the house (Noordman, p. 299: "Sam Walsh en Tom Murphy kwamen in huis bij Joop Kruimel in Garderen. De burgemeestersfamilie kwam uit Laren (NH) en heette Van Nispen tot Sevenear"). "A few days after we arrived there we were joined by Sgt. HARDING, 10 Para Bn", who stayed on after they left and later told Walsh that "the Germans had accidentally discovered the cellar and radio set" and burned the house, with Uncle Joop away (Walsh).

His entry is a poem of two verses beginning "Soldiers of fortune are we", then "A friend in need is a friend indeed. With sincere thanks", signed "Pte S. P. Walsh, 156 Parachute Regt, A.A.C." and dated 8/10/44; the lower edge of the date is clipped in the printed picture, so ◐ the day and month are as they read on the print. Banwell's page, facing the start of Murphy's, is also dated 8 October (Noordman, figs. 189 and 193, pp. 293 and 300).

⚠︎ The dates do not agree. Walsh's report has Garderen from 14 October after a week at Kootwijk. Noordman, who worked from the guestbook, opens his chapter on Walsh and Murphy with "Omstreeks 8 oktober 1944" (around 8 October 1944) (p. 296); Liesbeth Verweij has the move to Elspeet arranged around 10 October and made the next evening (p. 301); Hardy, who reached Elspeet on 19 October, found Murphy already there (Hardy). Walsh himself puts the move to Elspeet "About 21 Oct". Only his report and Hoekstra's form (about 16 October) support the later dates. Walsh's report was taken on 7 March 1945, nearly five months later; the guestbook date is in his own hand, but the lower edge is clipped. Not settled (the arguments; Kruimel's page).

The reason he was given for the move was "to make room for a party of six R.A.M.C. officers who were expected" (Walsh). Noordman's Dutch rendering has the house full because "nieuwe gasten waren gearriveerd" (new guests had arrived) and names four: Allenby, Allen, Longland and Kessel (p. 300).

Walsh's report moves the two to "a house in ELSPEET … where Pte. HARDY … James, 16 Fd Amb was living", and for his movements until 25 November refers to Hardy's report, "which is the same except for one detail" (Walsh). The house was Sterrehoveke, home of Jkvr Ima van Eysinga, where Dirk van Eysinga ("Derek") also lived in hiding. Liesbeth Verweij's account, which Noordman prints, has her cycle to De Ruif to arrange it, ride twenty metres ahead on the night, and lose "Tom and Sam" in the dark for "well over a quarter of an hour" on the way, with Kruimel at the rear. She remembered them as regular and disciplined: they stayed behind the water tank in the attic at the word "Coffee", and went by different ways to gather firewood in the Elspeet woods by day (Noordman, pp. 301–302). Hardy's report calls Walsh "another Paratrooper whose name I do not know, both of the 156 Para Bn. They had both been wounded" (Hardy). The helpers' papers on this stay are on the pages of Ima van Eysinga and Liesbeth Verweij: both of their forms list him ("Sam Walsh, 156 Bn. Parach. Regt" on Ima's, "Sam. Walsh, 156 Bn. Parach. Regt." on Liesbeth's), received from "Dr. Kruimel 'De Ruif', Garderen" and passed to Joop Migchelsen and Erik Blok at Hulshorst (Ima's form, p. 3; Liesbeth's, p. 3).

For these weeks Walsh's report says only that Hardy's is the same, and Hardy names him only as "the other Paratrooper". By Hardy:

• on the evening of 26 October Derek and his aunt went ahead pushing bicycles, "and MURPHY, the other Paratrooper, and myself following a short distance in the rear", to Kijkuit, the forester's house in the Leuvenumse Bos, where the party Hardy had been with before was still living; Banwell joined on 29 October;
• at midnight on 6 November Derek and "Loew" took the party to Harskamp, "eight of us including the two guides, Sgt. BANWELL, the Sergeant Glider Pilot JOHN, Pte. MURPHY, P/O. BRENTFORD, the other Paratrooper and myself", where Baron Mackay's chicken hut held them until 14 November;
• from 14 November they were at Rockelsche Zand until 17 November (Hardy; the places are told on Kijkuit and Harskamp).

Walsh's name is on the papers of the people who fed them. Joop Migchelsen lists "WALSH, Samuel" and Murphy, delivered "'en bloc'" on 11 November at midnight to the farmer Bos at Staverden (his file, p. 3; ⚠︎ Hardy dates the move to Harskamp five days earlier). Z. van der Vlist, the forester at Kijkuit, lists Thomas Murphy, Samuel Walsh and James Hardy (his file, p. 3); and his letter of 3 January 1947 about the invasion guilder the six signed gives the signatures as "Sam Watsch, James Hardy, James Branford, K D Banwell, Thomas Murphy, B.J.F. Haller" (the letter, p. 9; the Airborne Museum's catalogue has "Private S. (Sammy) Walsh, 156 Battalion" among the six on its note: the entry). Hilbrand Baar's file lists "Samuel Walsh / Pte 4389314 | Paratrooper" with Branford and Hardy (p. 3).

By Walsh's report:

On the night of 17 Nov when we lost HARDY and P/O. BRENTFORD, our guides took Sgt. BANWELL … Sgt. HALLER, John … Pte. MURPHY and myself to a house at approx. posn 560984 (Sheet 2) where we stayed overnight and moved to the rendezvous which HARDY gives as posn 602990 (Sheet 2) the next day.

— MI9 · Pte S. Walsh · report of 7 March 1945 · the report

On 25 November one of the men who brought their food told them that "the member of the Underground who was looking after us (name unknown) had been arrested", and as there was a search in the area they split into two parties of three: "P/O. BRENTFORD, Sgt. HALLER and I going together", towards Valk (Walsh).

⚠︎ Hardy and Walsh disagree about who was lost. Hardy has Banwell, Branford, Murphy and himself take the wrong fork, with "Sgt. JOHN and the other Paratrooper" (Walsh) taken on by the guides, then Murphy, Branford, Haller, Walsh and himself in a dug-out near Roekel, ten men, until Murphy and Hardy left it on the morning of 24 November (Hardy). Walsh has himself, Haller, Banwell and Murphy together overnight, and does not mention Roekel. Walsh says his account is Hardy's "except for one detail" and does not say which; ◐ it is probably the one that puts Murphy with him. Noordman's rendering of Walsh adds that the main party "had already passed that place" and the crossing had failed (p. 303). Hardy describes Murphy continuously afterwards, so his version is the likelier; not settled (Operation Pegasus II).

The three walked towards Valk and at about two in the afternoon reached the house of a builder Walsh knew as "HANK", "married, with three daughters", who put them up for a week; on 1 December a guide, "GERD (?)", who had been one of their guides to the crossing, took them to his own house near Kootwijkerbroek and next day Branford and Walsh to "a farm on the outskirts of VALK" while Haller went elsewhere: "Our new host was Evaard VAN BRAAK, a farmer, married, with one daughter aged about eight" (Walsh). Noordman, who had Gerrit van Ee's pocket-book, identifies Gerd as Gerrit van Ee and gives "Heimen van der Ende" as the sleeping place of 7 February, not of 1 December (p. 304).

The helper wrote him down too: Evert van de Braak of Lunteren listed "Mr. S. Walsk [sic] / 8 Nakin place Darnall / Sheffield England", of the "Invasion Arnhem-Oosterbeek stoottroops", hidden "1.12.43. till 24.2.44", the year a year out on the form and the day (24 February) against Walsh's own departure on 7/8 February, beside Branford from 1 December 1944 to 26 February 1945 (Van de Braak's file, p. 5; his page). Heimen van Esveld of Kootwijkerbroek listed "S. Walsh Darmall Sheffield England" for seven days, with McNaught, received from "Joop and Dick", ◐ Piller and Kragt (his file, p. 8; his page). Walsh's report has him go to Gerd's house on the evening of 7 February "to celebrate his birthday" and, "instead of going back to BRAAK'S that night", stay with the paratroopers "Pte's. McNAUGHT … and RILEY" at a nearby farm; "Next morning GERD came and told us that we were to prepare to leave" (Walsh). Noordman has the farm as "Heimen van der Ende" and Van Ee noting the birthday in his pocket-book (p. 304); ◐ it is very probably Heimen van Esveld's, since Haller, at Heimen van Esveld's all winter, skated with Riley and McNaught on New Year's Day (Noordman, p. 271).

Walsh's report ends: "From that time until I finally reached safety on 7 mar my story is the same as that narrated by Pte. McNAUGHT (IS9/WEA/1/290/2385)", except for the weeks "billeted at the home of VAN DER WEIL, in SLIEDRECHT" after the unsuccessful attempt of 19 February (Walsh). Noordman prints a fuller telling as Walsh's, as he told it after his return to liberated territory in March 1945 ("zoals hij het verteld heeft na zijn terugkeer in bevrijd gebied in maart 1945", p. 296), and does not say what it was taken from (chapter 22, a research translation; pp. 304–306):

• given overalls and bicycles, he set off with McNaught and Riley and a guide, Jan (the text opens "Op 7 februari", but see "The day they left" below for the 8th); at Barneveld Dick Kragt met them at a crossroads and told them "the plan really was to get us to liberated territory";
• a henhouse used as an arms store in the woods near Doorn that night, then the house of a Mrs Lels at Hoogland, where Private Gordon joined them;
• 17 February, with a woman courier, to a house by a canal; on the 18th by the Lek to near Schoonhoven, across by rowing boat, Groot-Ammers, and Molenaarsgraaf, where a minister, Dekker, took them in;
• 19 February, Sliedrecht, where an American lieutenant, Belton, and an English sergeant, Radcliffe, joined; Walsh went in a canoe, the others in a rowing boat; the motor boats from the other side did not come by four, and they went back to Sliedrecht, Walsh and Gordon staying with Van der Wiel;
• 5 March the courier fetched them again; on 6 March the other four rejoined; they left Sliedrecht at about half past nine that evening in a rowing boat and arrived "in the harbour of Lage Zwaluwe at about half past four in the morning on 7 March 1945".

◐ The text Noordman prints as Walsh's is very probably McNaught's report put into Walsh's voice: from the departure it follows that report almost sentence by sentence, down to "Riley zat bij mij op de bagagedrager" (Riley sat on my carrier) and "Ik kwam in een kano bij een van de gidsen" (I went in a canoe with one of the guides), which in McNaught's report are McNaught's own bicycle and canoe, with Walsh's weeks at Van der Wiel's added (McNaught; Noordman, p. 305; Frank McNaught). Beside the reports:

• The day they left. ◐ The 8th. McNaught's report has Jan tell "RILEY, myself and Pte. WALSH … who had joined us the previous night" to get ready at about 14:00 on 8 February, and Walsh's own report has the birthday evening on 7 February and "Next morning GERD came and told us that we were to prepare to leave" (McNaught; Walsh). Noordman's text agrees with them in its birthday paragraph (the evening of 7 February, the next morning told to get ready), but then opens the departure with "Op 7 februari" (pp. 304–305), so it gives both dates.
• Gordon at Doorn. Gordon's own report has him at Beer's garage at Amerongen "until 19 Feb", then at Sliedrecht that afternoon, the Domine's at Molenaarsgraaf that night and Van der Wiel's from 20 February, against McNaught's report and Noordman's text, which have him join them at Mrs Lels's (Gordon). Not reconciled.
• The Sliedrecht house of 19 February. ◐ The Van Woerkoms': Cornelis van Woerkom's table has McNaught and Riley there from 19 to 21 February, and Mrs Van Woerkom remembered for Noordman that the two stayed "tot woensdag" (until Wednesday) (his table, image-checked; Noordman, p. 306).

✓ The Sliedrecht men's own papers have him in that company. Hollebrands's list, above, is dated 8 October 1945; Petrus Ingelse of Bleskensgraaf, whose home "was one of the transit centres of the I.S.9 water evacuations of the Sliedrecht area", has "S.WALSH R.A.F." on his list with McNaught, Riley, Haller and Craven (his summary, p. 14, 10 October 1945); and Ivan Johannes van der Ley of Dordrecht, whose award recommendation lists the evaders he assisted at the same crossing, has "S. WALSH (Sheffield England)" beside McNaught, Riley and Gordon (his file, p. 13). Nothing in them dates his own night.

The compiler's note on his page has him reaching Allied lines "on the 6th March 1945" and transferred back to the Green Howards on 23 May 1945 (Walsh, preamble). His report was taken on 7 March 1945, the date the Kew catalogue gives for it (WO 208/5433/14). Murphy wrote in his memoir that in Edinburgh after demob a young soldier who had been with him at Arnhem "said MI6 questioned him about me and Sammy Welsh, and how we got on with Mr Donaldson who was murdered" (the page; ⚠︎ his word, the soldier unnamed). Nothing has been found on Walsh's later life or death.

⚠︎ Not this Walsh. Airborne Magazine prints "Samuel Walsh" at De Ruif with the unit "HQ Coy, 2nd Parachute Battalion" (Somford). That is the unit of a namesake: ParaData's Samuel P Walsh enlisted in the London Irish Rifles in June 1939, was batman to Padre Egan in 2nd Parachute Battalion's HQ Company, was wounded on 17 September 1944, "was eventually held in Camp XIB Fallingbostel" and "died in 2009 at Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire". Nothing in that entry fits a man who was taken on 21 September, escaped Apeldoorn on 6 October and reached the Allies in March 1945.

• His service number. 4389317 on his report, on every Kew entry and on the Pegasus Archive page. Several of the Dutch forms have it wrong: 4389314 on Hilbrand Baar's list and on Jeane van Galen's list and its typed English translation (Baar, p. 3; Van Galen, p. 3 and p. 5), and on the Van Nispen son's second list, whose first list swaps the two men's numbers, "Samuel Walsh 2756457" and "Thomas Murphy 4389414" (the son's file, p. 3; p. 5); Migchelsen has "438914" (p. 3). ✓ 4389317 is his, by his own report and the Kew catalogue.
• His address. 35 Jarron Street, Leicester, on his report; "35 Jarrom [?] street, Leicester" on Migchelsen's list and "35 Jaddam St. Leicester" on the Van Nispens' (the father's file, p. 3); a street and Darnall (spelt Darnall, Darwall) on Van de Braak's and Hollebrands's forms, "Darmall Sheffield England" on Heimen van Esveld's and "Sheffield England" alone on Van der Ley's, the street spelt differently on each that has one. Nothing held says why he gave Sheffield on the water route.
  • The Americans' summary of Heimen van Esveld's file marks him "RAF" (p. 6), as do Ingelse's list and Liesbeth Verweij's form (p. 14; p. 3); he was a paratrooper.
• When he reached Garderen, and who took him from Kootwijk: see above.
• The date of the escape. The 6th on his report and in Noordman and the magazine; Joop Migchelsen's list has him "escaped on 30th Sept. 1944 from the hospital in Apeldoorn" (p. 3).
• Which platoon Murphy was in. Walsh writes "Pte. MURPHY … of my Coy", and the compiler's bracket at the name, which the ellipsis above cuts, reads "Mortar Platoon, 156 Parachute Battalion" (Walsh); Murphy's memoir has him transferred to the Mortar Platoon in Italy (page 5). ◐ C Company on 21 September, by Walsh's own "of my Coy"; the platoon is not settled.
• Who was lost on the night of 17 November: see above.
• The farm of 7 February. Noordman has "Heimen van der Ende"; Heimen van Esveld's own list has Walsh and McNaught, and Haller, at Heimen van Esveld's all winter, skated with Riley and McNaught there on New Year's Day (Noordman, p. 271). ◐ Very probably the same farm and the same Heimen.
• The day he reached safety. 6 March on the compiler's note; 7 March in his own words, and in Noordman's rendering, which has them arrive at Lage Zwaluwe at about half past four on the 7th after leaving Sliedrecht on the evening of the 6th. ◐ The compiler's date is the day they set out.
• Which Walsh. The ParaData entry above is another man; Airborne Magazine's unit for him is that man's.

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