Kate ter Horst, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kate ter Horst

Dutch nurse

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1906

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 21-Feb-1992

Profession: nurse

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Kate ter Horst MBE (born 6 July 1906, Amsterdam – 21 February 1992, Oosterbeek) was a Dutch full-time housewife and mother who tended wounded and dying Allied soldiers during the Battle of Arnhem.
Her British patients nicknamed her the Angel of Arnhem.
Her daughter Sophie Lambrechtsen light-heartedly noted in 2014 that ‘She [Kate] hated all that,’ and that ‘She just did what lots of people did.’Ter Horst was born Kate Anna Arriëns, daughter of Pieter Albert Arriëns and Catharina Maingay.
She married Jan ter Horst, a lawyer from Rotterdam, with whom she had six children.
One of her daughters, Sophie, still resides in the family home in Oosterbeek.