Please answer the following question: Facts:   - death place: the hague , netherlands    - placeofburial label: place of burial    - battles: world war ii    - death date: 28 december 1984    - nickname: `` hans ''      - awards: military war commemorative cross distinguished service cross -lrb- uk -rrb- mentioned order in dispatches -lrb- uk -rrb- of william order of orange-nassau bronze cross    - birth date: 23 september 1915    - serviceyears: 1937 -- 1946    - name: etienne henri larive    - branch: royal netherlands navy    - laterwork: employee of royal dutch shell    - image: hans larive.jpg    - birth place: singapore    - rank: lieutenant commander   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of hans larive .
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etienne henri `` hans '' larive , mwo , dsc and bar , -lrb- 23 september 1915 -- 28 december 1984 -rrb- was a dutch naval officer during world war ii .he escaped from the prisoner of war camp oflag iv-c at colditz castle in 1941 , and spent the rest of the war in england serving aboard motor torpedo boats .he later wrote his memoir `` vannacht varen de hollanders '' -lrb- 1950 -rrb- , which was republished translated into english as `` the man who came in from colditz '' -lrb- 1975 -rrb- -- a pun on the best-selling novel `` the spy who came in from the cold '' .