Paul Couvret (5 June 1922 – 5 July 2013) was a Dutch–Australian military veteran, New South Wales schoolteacher and local Councillor.

He was subsequently transported to Nagasaki on board the Asama Maru in October 1942, where he spent the rest of the war.

On 9 August 1945, Couvret was working in a sunken dock in Nagasaki Harbour when an atom bomb exploded six kilometres away.

[citation needed] Therefore, at the end of 1945 he came to Australia for six months to assist with the evacuation of prisoners of war from the East.

Here, he eventually acquired Australian naturalisation in 1951, which enabled him to gain employment with the NSW Department of Education.

Eventually he took the position of Special Master at Balgowlah Boys High School, which enabled him to move back to Sydney and settle in the Forest district of the North Shore.

His last position as a teacher was his role as Deputy Principal of the NSW Correspondence School, retiring in August 1982.

[2] On 25 February 2011, he was appointed by Queen Beatrix as a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau and invested at a ceremony commemorating the Battle of the Java Sea by the Dutch Consul-General in Sydney, Jaap Fredericks.