DUTCH PATRIOT’S SON
REUNION WITH N.Z. AIRMAN (P.A.) AUCKLAND, January 26. More than four years after hia bomber was shot down by the Germans over Holland, a former Auckland airman has been given an opportunity of repaying a debt of gratitude to a member of the Dutch war-time underground movement who harboured him and attempted to get him to safety.
The airman is Mr Terry Walker, now a rehabilitation carpentry trainee, of Mount Eden, who met the airliner Arkana at Whenuapai this morning to welcome the Dutchman’s son, Mr Roel Hagoort. aged 19, who has come to settle in New Zealand.
Mr Walker, who was a navigator on the bomber, was harboured for a fortnight in Utrecht in Mr Hagoort's home. Then Mr Walker was smuggled out of Holland to Belgium. He was caught by the Germans at Louvain. and spent the rest of the war in a prison camp, Stalag IVB. Mr Walker did not hear from Mr Hagoort again until this week when he received a letter from Utrecht. The Dutch youth has employment on a farm at Warkworth.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25713, 27 January 1949, Page 4
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