PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Six, Jhr. Pieter Jacob
Date of birth: April 5th, 1895 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Date of death:  April 27th, 1986 ('s Graveland, the Netherlands)
Nationality:  Dutch
     
RIDDER VIERDE KLASSE DER MILITAIRE WILLEMS ORDE (MWO.4)
Rank: Tijdelijk reserve-kolonel.
Unit: Wapen der Cavalerie
Awarded on: August 24th, 1946
Details: Royal decree no.4
 
     
ORDE VAN ORANJE-NASSAU (ON)
 
     
VERZETSHERDENKINGSKRUIS (VHK)
 
     
ERETEKEN VOOR LANGDURIGE DIENST ALS OFFICIER
 
     
LEGION OF MERIT - LEGIONNAIRE (LOM)
Rank: Tijdelijk reserve-kolonel.
Unit: Wapen der Cavalerie
Details: For exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of oustanding service as leader of a resistance group in the Netherlands. Colonel Six assisted the Deputy Commander of the Interior Forces of the Netherlands in the organization and fusion of all groups and then became leader and commander of all armed resistance personnel with special tasks, an assignment which he discharged with great distinction.
 
 
 
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Information source(s):   - Heuvel C.C. van den, Gedenkboek Verzetsherdenkingskruis, Samsom Uitgeverij, 1985
- Maalderink P.G.H., De Militaire Wilemsorde sedert 1940, Sijthoff Pers, Rijswijk, 1982
- The Dutch Medals Page
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