1 Trick photograph combining early shots of my father, N C H Wijngaards, and my mother, L C M van Hoesel.
2 My mother when she was 15 years old.
3 My mother at 18.
4 My mother was governess of the Bronkhorst children for a while. Here she poses with onee of the children.
5 My mother with all the four Bronkhorst children.
6 In my mother's family were four daughters. Here they are all together: front (l. to r.) Nel and my mother; back Bep and Carolien.
7 My father at 16 years old.
8 My father when he was 18 or 19.
9 My father, left, with two fellow students at the Teachers Training College in Hilversum.
10 My father was a member of the TTC's football team. He stands in the back row, second from the left.
11 My father and mother on their wedding day in May 1933.
12 My mother's family around 1930. Front row (from left to right): Nel, Johannes van Hoesel, Lamberdina van Hoesel- van Ditshuizen and Aloys. Back row: Carel, Dietze (my mother), Bep, Frans, Carolien, Jo and Piet. My mother was the eldest.
13 Farewell party on board the St, Marnix van Aldegonde when my parents left for Indonesia in 1933. Back row (left to right): Grandfather Wijngaards, Grandmother Wijngaards-Beek, my mother, my father, Grandmother van Hoesel-van Ditshuizen, Grandfather van Hoesel.