Cornelis Hubertus Augustinus Smeets <i>(Hubert)</i>
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Cornelis Hubertus Augustinus Smeets is listed in the Resistance Memorial on the
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Cornelis Hubertus Augustinus Smeets (Hubert)


 27-08-1892 Noorbeek;      09-10-1943 Fort Rhijnauwen, prov. Utrecht (51)
- Eijsden - Initial resistance - Erkens Group -

Memorial stone Erkens group, Rhijnauwen.

    Hub. Smeets was municipal secretary and brother of Alphons Smeets. Member of the Belgian intelligence group Luc, section Renkin, which was to cooperate locally with the Belgian intelligence network Clarence [1] and with Nic Erkens.
    He called in the help of J. Arpots, Jozef Partouns and J. Reintjens, three young people, one of whom worked at the Dutch Railways. They called themselves the "Orange Triangle". They noted down all details about the train traffic and passed on the data to Smeets, who typed them on cigarette papers at the town hall.
    Unless otherwise noted, the source for this data is Het verborgen front (The Hidden Front) by F. Cammaert. [2]
    Arrested on 15 October 1942 as a result of the Hannibalspiel, an infiltration by the Groningen office of the Marineabwehr, the counter intelligence service of the German navy. [3] (By the way: Cammaert hoofdstuk II mentions two arrest dates. In an appendix he also mentions 7 October 1942). The court martial of the German air force imposed the death penalty on Smeets in Utrecht on 11 August 1943.
    In Eijsden the Hub. Smeetsstraat is named after him. [4]
    He is mentioned on the memorial stone for the Erkens group at Fort Rhijnauwen, where they were executed (click on the photo), and on the monument for the fallen resistance members at Vroenhof, Eijsden [5].
    His urn is in a burial chamber in the cemetery in Eijsden behind the monument. [6]
    He is listed in the “Erelijst 1940-1945” (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [7]

    Footnotes

    1. Réseau Clarence, Wikipedia • NederlandsDeutschEnglishFrançais
    2. Dr. F. Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Doctorale scriptie 1994, Groningen
      2. De eerste militair-civiele verzetsformaties, p. 79 ff.
    3. Hannibalspiel
    4. OpenStreetMap Hub. Smeetsstraat, Mariadorp, Eijsden
    5. Monument der gevallen verzetslieden in Vroenhof, Eijsden
    6. Archief Oorlogsgravenstichting (@ Nationaal archief), Dossier Cornelis Hubertus Augustinus Smeets #8
    7. Erelijst 1940-1945
    8. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
    9. https://www.wo2slachtoffers.nl/bio/53344/Smeets-Cornelis-Hubertus-Augustinus.htm wo2slachtoffers.nl