Rudi Hemmes
World War II started when Hemmes was sixteen years old. He decided to join the resistance. Among others he sabotaged German cars by throwing sugar into the petrol tanks. Together with a friend he decided to go to England in May 1943. Via France, Spain and Portugal they were able to arrive in England in May 1943, where they arrived in February 1944. There they joined the Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry Brigade in Wolverhampton. On 8 August 8 1944  he landed with that brigade on the beaches of Normandy, from where they moved to the Netherlands.