Manschot Adriaan

Fast Facts

Type of person	Individual
Date of arrival	"{{{Date approximate2}}}" is not recognized as a Boolean (true/false) value. 5th March 1942
Principal occupation	Pilot
Date of departure	"{{{Date approximate3}}}" is not recognized as a Boolean (true/false) value. "{{{Date approximate2}}}" is not recognized as a Boolean (true/false) value. April 1942
Date of death	"{{{Date approximate4}}}" is not recognized as a Boolean (true/false) value. "{{{Date approximate3}}}" is not recognized as a Boolean (true/false) value. "{{{Date approximate2}}}" is not recognized as a Boolean (true/false) value. 1945
Place of decease	Bellgium

 The following story is written by Piet Van Den Berg, a relative of Adriaan Manschott.

Adriaan Manschot was one of the pilots of the Dutch MLD (Marine Navy) arriving at the Mallala RAAF training base on the 4th March 1942. Just five days later the Dutch Indies would surrender to the enemy invading their country. They were initially told to acquire more aircraft from Australia to be able to defend their country. Now they were stuck in a country which was threatened itself from the north.

It never came that far fortunately. However on the 3rd March 1942, there was an attack on Dutch refugees in Broome, Western Australia, and 88 people died and at least 22 airplanes were destroyed.