When Princess Margriet lifts the veil on a bronze plaque at Beechwood Cemetery, she will be honouring a Canadian military figure who's arguably better remembered in the Netherlands than here.
The plaque pays tribute to Lt.-Gen. Charles Foulkes, who died in Ottawa in 1969 and is buried at Beechwood. His grave is marked by a simple granite headstone, according to military tradition.
He returned to England in 1937 to undergo officer training at staff college, where he was deemed "sound and competent, and possessed of drive and determination." According to Cook, the Germans initially balked at Foulkes's demand that the they immediately make way for emergency food aid to reach starving Dutch civilians.
Foulkes's nephew Don Foulkes remembers his uncle as 'absolutely a stern military man who had a great degree of formality with him.' "He was appalled at what they had accumulated and squirrelled away in terms of paintings and French wine and chocolates, when the entire nation of the Netherlands was starving to death," Foulkes recalled.
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