How the fortress of our Holland had virtually collapsed?

How the fortress of our Holland had virtually collapsed? It was the year 1934, I was a adolescent chap, at the time just 16 years old, I joined the "Royall Hollands Vloot" (The Royal Dutch Army), after leaving school early not allowing me to continue my studies due to world war one and the great depressions effects on my parent financial condition. I was the last of 14 children living with my parents, and my 12 older brothers had …

…after reading about her in a local Dutch catholic church magazine, advertising a young beautiful, Dutch women, seeking young Dutch man, wanting to migrate to Australia. She was perfect for me so for 20weeks I wrote to her until she arrived in Mt. Isa airport to find a young hansom Dutch boy (me), and get married to weeks later. We had 6 children, who gave us many wonderful grandchildren now who now live all across Australia.