George Maduro

George John Lionel Maduro was a Dutch law student who served as an officer in the 1940 Battle of the Netherlands and distinguished himself in repelling the German attack on The Hague. He was posthumously awarded the medal of Knight 4thclass of the Military Order of William, the highest and oldest military decoration in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

George John Lionel Maduro was born onJuly 1916 in Willemstad in the Dutch colony Curaao and Dependencies. He was the only son of Joshua and Rebecca Maduro, a couple of Sephardic Jewish descent.

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