Aart Hendrik Alblas, aka Klaas de Waard (Middelharnis

Middelharnis

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, 20 September 1918 – Mauthausen

Mauthausen

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, 7 September 1944), was a Dutch navy officer, resistance member and Engelandvaarder. He participated in several resistance operations and is one of the most highly decorated Dutch resistance

Dutch resistance

Dutch resistance to the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II can be mainly characterized by its prominent non-violence, summitting in over 300,000 people in hiding in the autumn of 1944, tended to by some 60,000 to 200,000 illegal landlords and caretakers and tolerated knowingly...

 members. In recognition of his actions, he was posthumously made a Knight 4th class in the Military William Order. He also received the Bronze Lion

Bronze Lion

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, the War Commemorative Cross and the Resistance Commemorative Cross. One of the sixteen minesweepers

Minesweeper (ship)

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, commissioned by Royal Netherlands Navy

Royal Netherlands Navy

The Koninklijke Marine is the navy of the Netherlands. In the mid-17th century the Dutch Navy was the most powerful navy in the world and it played an active role in the wars of the Dutch Republic and later those of the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands...

 between 1960 and 1962, was named the KRM Aart H. Alblas in his honour.