Navis, Christiaan “Chris” born 05-01-1916 in Voorschoten, 
Netherlands. In 1938, Chris Navis was a first-year cadet of the KNIL artillery. KNIL 
stands for the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. This was the colonial army of the Netherlands that existed between 1814 and 1950 to defend and maintain interests in the former Dutch East Indies.
In the autumn of 1939, Chris was promoted from cadet sergeant to cadet second lieutenant. Navis had completed his training and was likely already promoted to the rank of lieutenant by the time the war began. Navis had completed his training and by the time the war began, he had presumably already risen to the rank of lieutenant.
During World War II, Navis played a prominent role in the resistance group Ordedienst (OD). 
The Ordedienst (OD) was an important illegal organization in the Netherlands during World War II. Until 1942, with the formalization of the illegal National Organization for Assistance to Escaped Prisoners (LO), it was most likely the largest secret anti-German organization in the Netherlands, although exact figures on this are lacking.
It presumably began in 1940 when he was approached by John Schimmelpenninck. 
Schimmelpenninck needed aides and couriers for the realization of his vision of a ‘provisional government’ that, supported by a military organization (the OD), could guide the Netherlands thru the period of power vacuum after the Germans had been defeated. To this end, this organization needed to be able to quickly disseminate its instructions, and for that purpose, it had to have access to a network of transmitters and receivers. Beside Navis, other young military personnel such as Lieutenant Johan Frederik Henri. de Jonge Mellij, 
the cornet of the hussars Fridjof N. Dudok van Heel, 
Anton Willem Maria Abbenbroek, 
Willem Pasdeloup, and Gerhard Adrianus Dogger 
joined the OD.
Navis, together with the hussar F.N. Dudok van Heel (1918-1943), took on a leading role within the OD as a national liaison officer in early 1942. This was during a period when hundreds of colleagues were arrested as a result of German persecution, carelessness, information from interrogations, bad luck, and betrayal. Where the survival of the OD was threatened and comrades disappeared, Navis seemed to have an angel on his shoulder. Navis, together with F.J.Chr. Bührmann, would provide significant support to the newly appointed chief of staff Pieter Jacob Six 
in refilling the many vacant positions and restoring broken contacts. It seems like you provided a context reference but didn’t include the text you want to translate. Could you please provide the text that needs translation?
In 1943, Navis gathered and shared information within the OD that Koorink, an OD member, was likely a double agent working for the Sipo. Koorink was kept under surveillance for over half a year before he was liquidated by a Utrecht gang.
That year, Navis’ close friend Willem Pasdeloup would also be liquidated by the OD, as he had been continuously betraying OD and other resistance members under tragic circumstances due to blackmail. Pasdeloup’s half-Jewish fiancée was kept informed of the developments by Navis, except for the liquidation itself. She also died tragically after the war by walking into the propeller of the plane that was supposed to take her home.
For his resistance work, Navis would receive several awards after the war. Chris Navis was again active as a lieutenant in the Artillery of the KNIL in the former Dutch East Indies after World War II.
Death and burial ground of Navis, Christiaan “Chris”.
Christianj “Chris” Navis survived the war and passed away on 02-04-1986, age 70, in Den Haag, Netherlands. Chris was cremated, but his name is on the family grave in Den Haag.
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