Kate ter Horst

Kate ter Horst MBE (6 July 1906, Amsterdam – 21 February 1992, Oosterbeek) was a Dutch housewife and mother who tended wounded and dying Allied soldiers during the Battle of Arnhem.

[citation needed] Kate ter Horst witnessed the landings by the British 1st Airborne Division at the beginning of Operation Market Garden on 17 September 1944, noting the event in her diary.

[4] Captain Randall Martin asked the ter Horsts permission to set up a Regimental Aid Post in their house at the Benedendorpsweg in Oosterbeek.

Writing the foreword for the book, Arnhem veteran General Sir Frank King noted:[citation needed] I noticed how the whole room brightened up at her arrival, he recalled.

[2] Following her death, an Early Day Motion was passed by the British House of Commons paying tribute to Kate ter Horst.

[7] 'That this House is sad to learn of the death of Mrs Kate ter Horst who in September 1944 gave aid and refuge to dying and wounded British soldiers trying to liberate Arnhem; recognises she was an exceptionally brave person whose contribution is not forgotten; and sends its condolences to her family'.