In 1992, Jean van Schilfgaarde wrote to Dr Jack M. Ford about her wartime employment with the Netherlands Forces Intelligence Service (NEFIS) in Melbourne and at Camp Columbia, Wacol. Ford contacted her while researching his book Allies in bind: Australia and the Netherlands East Indies relations during World War Two. Read more
Akky van Ogtrop graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, s-Hertogenbosch, TheNetherlands, majoring in printmaking, and has a Masters Degree Fine Arts, Sydney University. As a director and project manager of major arts events, Akky has worked for national andinternational arts organisations including: the Biennale of Sydney, ARTiculate Campaign, Read more
Dr Ray Kerkhove is a Dutch-born historian, known for his contributions to reconstructing Aboriginal lifeways, biographies, site histories, and Frontier Wars especially concerning southern Queensland. He also sometimes writes on smaller and lesser-known faiths, For instance, he composed the first multi-faith history of an Australian region: Soul Havens (2003). Ray’s Read more
Casimir Albrecht Willem (Cas) Jeekel (Medan, 24 February 1922 – Breda, 13 March 2010. He was a former director of the Zoological Museum in Amsterdam. (now based in Leiden). Dr Jeekel was once the world authority on millipedes and, as a Dutchman, had a great influence on the study of Read more
This story outlines the history of how the Beek family (Father, Mother and two sons) came to migrate to Australia.
Flight Sergeant Jeffery David “Jeff” Crosbie was one of the Australian airmen who served alongside Dutch and Indonesian personnel in No. 18 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron RAAF. A tail gunner in the squadron’s B-25 Mitchell bombers, he participated in reconnaissance patrols and bombing operations against Japanese targets in the Netherlands Read more
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
The Langbroek family emigrated from the Netherlands to Australia in mid-1961, shorty after the birth of John-Paul. Their mother, Anne, is part Jamaican and American, and their father, Jan Langbroek, is Dutch. Both worked as missionaries in Papua New Guinea. The family travelled around rural Queensland where Langbroek Sr worked Read more
The following is an interview with Glen published in October 2018 in the Daily Telegraph. A link to the Article is provided underneath, Liverpool Historical Society president Glen op den Brouw reflects on what he loves about Liverpool. 1. When did you move to this suburb and why? After migrating Read more
Dutch-born Bakker has floristry in his blood. His father was a fourth-generation tulip farmer and Joost and his three brothers grew up surrounded by flowers on their property.