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Photo collection Evert Herman van Hummel – Flight Engineer Royal Dutch Airforce – KLM

These pictures are all from the Evert Herman van Hummel collection. He was a flight engineer from 1938 till approx. 1970. Unfortunately most photographs don’t have any accompanying information. This first section is most likely from his early period in the 1930 and early 1940s. During WWII he was stationed Read more…

By DACC, 15 hoursFebruary 5, 2023 ago
Aviation and Shipping

Evert Herman van Hummel survived a Catalina Crash in 1945

Evert van Hummel was born in Baarn in the Netherlands on 29 January 1916. Evert Herman Van Hummel (some called him Evert others called him Herman) started working at the Air force base Soesterberg aged 15 in the engineering shop.  He became ground engineer on September 5, 1938 and went Read more…

By DACC, 21 hoursFebruary 5, 2023 ago
Aviation and Shipping

The fascinating history of the DC3 Wielewaal (1937-now)

It was the 67th DC-3 (model Douglas DC-3-194B. c/n 1944) to be completed by the Douglas factory in California. It was the 10th DC3 purchased by KLM for the route Amsterdam-Batavia and received the name ‘Wielewaal’ (Golden Oriole). Initial registration sign: VH-ANR. The aircraft was flown from Santa Monica to Read more…

By DACC, 1 weekJanuary 29, 2023 ago
Dutch businesses in Australia

Dutch Club of Sydney – Flying Dutchman Restaurant (1957-1962)

DACC researchers came across ‘The Dutch Club’ in Sydney. There are no records of this club, further research revealed that the Dutch Club of Sydney and the restaurant The Flying Dutchman in the City (Elizabeth Street) are always mentioned together. The restaurant was run by famous Dutchman Dick Groenteman. It Read more…

By DACC, 1 weekJanuary 29, 2023 ago
Dutch businesses in Australia

The history of Shell in Australia – since 1901

Shell Australia is the Australian subsidiary of Shell. Shell has operated in Australia since 1901, initially delivering bulk fuel into Australia, then establishing storage and distribution terminals, oil refineries, and a network of service stations. It extended its Australian activities to oil exploration, petrochemicals and coal mining, and became a Read more…

By DACC, 1 weekJanuary 27, 2023 ago
Dutch businesses in Australia

Schrier & Zonen – chicken farm

By DACC, 3 weeksJanuary 18, 2023 ago
Aviation and Shipping

Joan McConachy – secretary at the Dutch Army at Camp Columbia

By her son David Hill. Joan McConachy was a secretary at Camp Columbia, Brisbane working for the Dutch Army as she later told her son David (perhaps at NEFIS). Joan was born in 1924 at Winton (Central West QLD) and moved to Brisbane around 1943 from the then family home Read more…

By DACC, 1 monthDecember 31, 2022 ago
Dutch businesses in Australia

Long agriculture history between Australia and the Netherlands

Being the 2nd largest export of agriculture products, The Netherlands has a very long relationship with Australia in relation to agriculture. Already in the 1970 the Netherlands participated in agriculture events in Orange NSW. Further down below is an article from the Washington Post providing an overall state of the Read more…

By DACC, 1 monthDecember 26, 2022 ago
Aviation and Shipping

Dutch War Cemetery Perth incl. names of people killed

This is the only official Dutch War Cemetery in Australia. It is only one of three non Commonwealth War Cemeteries in Australia, the other two being the Tatura (German) War Cemetery in Victoria (250 graves) and the Cowra (Japanese) War Cemetery in New South Wales (523). At Cowra the Dutch Read more…

By DACC, 2 monthsDecember 21, 2022 ago
Dutch businesses in Australia

The Smallgoods business story of Hans and Anthony van de Drift

Hans van de Drift – Hans The story of one of Australia’s largest sausage manufacturers ‘ Hans’ begins in the Netherlands. Hans van der Drift tried to escape being in the army (draft was still a thing back then) AND having to work for his dad on the weekends in Read more…

By DACC, 2 monthsDecember 18, 2022 ago

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