Pieter Koenraad was born in Dirksland on June 6, 1890 and he died in Las Palmas
(Gran Canaria Isles, Spain) on February 22, 1968. Between December 1941 - February 1942,
he was the Commanding Officer of the Naval Base Soerabaja. From March 1942 - 1945, he
was the Commander of the Dutch Naval Forces in Australiam, and from August 1945 - 1946,
the Deputy Commander of the Royal Dutch Navy in Indonesia. He retired as Vice-Admiral on
1 May 1946.