Elburg – Verzetsgroep ‘Old Putten’

Due to the failure of Operation Market Garden, countless Allies ended up here and there on the Veluwe, behind enemy lines. These soldiers wanted to return to their own troops on the other side of the Rhine as soon as possible and were often helped by the local population and members of the resistance. Resistance […]

Due to the failure of Operation Market Garden, countless Allies ended up here and there on the Veluwe, behind enemy lines. These soldiers wanted to return to their own troops on the other side of the Rhine as soon as possible and were often helped by the local population and members of the resistance. Resistance group ‘Old Putten’ was active around Elburg.

Aid to stranded soldiers

In Elburg there was a resistance group called Olde Putten”, named after the estate of the Rambonnet family. After the failed Battle of Arnhem in September 1944, British soldiers were received at “Olde Putten”. During Operation Pegasus 1 on October 22, 149 British soldiers were across the Rhine. escaped to the liberated south. A second attempt was made in November 1944. Twenty soldiers were gathered at Norel’s farm in Doornspijk to be taken to Lunteren. The car did not arrive that evening villa Olde Putten. With a car, borrowed from the Todt organization, they went to the Westenrode farm south of the Ede-Otterlo road to join the others. However, they got off too early and missed the connection When they heard shooting in the distance, the operation turned out to be a failure. The group hid and was then housed in various places by the resistance. A number of them came to the liberated southern Netherlands in the following months.

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