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Service/ branch. Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. Rank. Major. Battles/wars. Dutch East Indies campaign (1941–42) Henri Hekking (1902/03–1994) was a Dutch medical officer with the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) noted for his service in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps during the Second World War.
On January 28, 1994 Dr. Henri H. Hekking passed away in Holland after a long battle with cancer. His “boys” were at a loss for words of how much he meant to them. He was an expert jungle doctor who saved their lives and became an endearing father figure and great friend.
28 de nov. de 2022 · Henri Hekking, a doctor born in Java of Dutch descent, was especially revered by the POWs for his extensive knowledge of medicinal uses of local herbs. He was able to locate rhizomes of the ipecacuanha plant while foraging, which were boiled and fed to sufferers of dysentery .
28 de oct. de 2015 · With the POWs was Doctor Henri Hekking, who had been born and raised in the former Dutch East Indies colony of Java (now Indonesia). He had spent his early years with his grandmother, a master...
1 de mar. de 1988 · 4.16. 125 ratings13 reviews. From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs who had been forced into slave labor by the Japanese died building the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway, an undertaking immortalized in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
On Timor there was also a Dutch doctor Henri Hekking. He was the resident doctor in Koepang and had his wife and two sons with him. (Hekking later distinguished himself as the Medical Officer with the American POWs (survivors of USS Houston and members of the 131st Artillery Unit) on the Burma end of the Burma Thailand Railway.
1 de ene. de 2006 · He singles out the efforts of Dutch Doctor Henri Hekking who worked to save many American, British, Australian and Dutch prisoners during the three years of captivity in Burma and Thailand. Charles was one of the few Americans who were prisoners working on the railroad. He was a Marine from the USS Houston sunk in Februray 1942 off Java.
