Author: REES, W.A. VAN,
Title: Herinneringen uit de loopbaan van een Indisch Officier. Nieuwe herziene uitgave. (new revised publication).
Description: Rotterdam, D. Bolle, [..], 1896. 2 vols. recent cloth, new endpapers, original title-labels laid-down on both front boards. 333, [3](table of contents), 307, [3]pp. (table of contents). Text-ills. after drawings by G.B. Hooyer. BUUR, PD, 98. Recollections of an officer serving in the Royal Dutch Colonial Army, K.N.I.L., in nineteenth century Indonesia; dealing with a variety of milistary expeditions and general observations on the army as such, the common soldiers, social status and on the local population. The Sea-voyage to Batavia, arrival, the drilling-depôt, Semarang, expeditions to the interior of Java and Bali. One of the first attempts to supply information on the daily reality and routine of the Royal dutch Colonial Army, behavior and social status of the common soldier, the boredom at the barracks, praparations for expditions, the bravery of the common soldier, &c. Good, still uncut copy in recent cloth.

Keywords: militaria history knil army social status expeditions war batavia semarang java bali history colonialism indonesia southeast asia buur 19thc