Harold de Jong

Harold de Jong is an active serving soldier of the Royal Netherlands Army and is commander of the Royal School (KMS). Because of his research into the death of soldiers in combat areas, he is very aware of the importance of recording the stories of the fallen soldiers. The combination with his predilection for military history and in particular the Second World War in combination with capturing the stories have resulted in the book ‘Franse Para’s in Drenthe’. The underlying idea is to give a face to a fallen soldier who fought for our freedom. Through his research into the liberation in the Northern Netherlands, he has over the years immersed himself in the roles of the Canadians, Poles, French and Belgians. He prefers to carry out his reconnaissance for the tours in his 1942 Willys Jeep.