Michel Wilhelm Nuboer (1916-1980) left Paramaribo in 1941/42 as an Assistant in the engine’s department of a freight ship bound to Curaçao during the Second World War. The ship may have likely been carrying aluminum aggregates for making fighter planes in the U.S. as cargo. Upon arrival, he probably was a gunner first, but then became a Medical Assistant stationed on Bonaire. During the 1960s - 1974+ he was a First Aid Medical Trainer in the Volunteer Corps Curaçao (VKC). On August 21st , 1969, Michel Wilhelm Nuboer received the Order of Orange-Nassau (no. 122) from Her Majesty the Queen.
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Female Passenger, passenger ship Simon Bolivar, Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij (KNSM)
Curaçao, 10 July 1937
North Sea, 18 November 1939
Died when ship hit two German mines and sank, near Harwich (UK)
Lost at sea, seamans grave
Note: the family (father, mother, son and daughter) all died.
