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1944-09-05 The Loss of Marten Elkerbout

Crash site: no crash; parachuted as BBO agent into occupied Holland. Held aviator ranks. Was captured and subsequently killed in Vught concentration camp.

Name

Elkerbout, Marten Frans

Rank

Off Vl MLD bd

Decorations

Verzetsherinneringskruis

Born

15/2/1897

Place

's-Gravenhage, NL

Unit

Bureau Bijzondere Opdrachten

Ops/hr

Aircraft

Base

Mission

Dropped as agent in occupied Holland

Status

MIA, killed in concentrationcamp Vught, NL

age

47

Missing

5/9/1944

Place

received no known grave in concentrationcamp Vught, NL

Known to

OGS

yes

CWGC

no

Remarks

Member of the Nationaal Comité van het Verzet. Engaged in helping evaders in the Eindhoven area. Arrested 19/4/1944

Memorial

1. Elkerboutlaan, Eindhoven

2 & 3. The casualties of the Engelandspiel are commemorated with a plaque on Binnenhof 4, Den Haag, and a Monument on the Hoge Weg, Scheveningse Bosjes, Den Haag.

GB arrival

Data

Confusion

2. Site of death

Map 96. Vught concentration camp

A 1944 aerial photograph superimposed on a current map. Vught, south of 's-Hertogenbosch, Brabant, NL, held the only concentrationcamp outside of Germany. It was commanded from the SS Headquarters in Berlin. The camp was operational from the end of 1942 to September 1944. M.F. Elkerbout was amongst the last prisoners executed here. The crematorium had three ovens; ashes were dumped on the adjacent field. Over 750 died in this camp, either as a result of disease, assault an/or malnutrition, or by execution on the 'fusilladeplaats'. We consider the ashes field as the final resting place of M.F. Elkerbout. The Nationaal Monument Kamp Vught is at the blue circle. A 'Lunet' is a defensive position dating from the 19th Century .

1944 aerial photograph: Topografische Dienst Emmen, but most likely of RAF origin

The crematorium in SS-Concentrationcamp Vught. Most of the camp was destroyed after the War. The small section that remained was later transformed into a national Monument, Nationaal Monument Kamp Vught. Vught 050913-3

Camp Vught crematorium and ashes field. Vught 050913-8

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