Author: MEEL, P. VAN (EDITOR/COMPILER],
Title: Tanda Kehormatan KNIL. Eerbewijs aan het KNIL. Verzet, guerilla en bevrijdingsstrijd geleverd door het Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger 8 Maart 1942-15 augustus 1945. [Eerste druk/first edition].
Description: Dordrecht, Stichting Vriendenkring oud KNIL artilleristen, 1985. Small 4°., original coloured and illustrated limp glossy wrappers, stapled. 44pp. Many black/white illustrations after photographs in text, of which portraits of decorated men, centre-fold. map of colonial Indonesia, sketch-maps in text, name-list of KNIL P.O.W. perished in japanese camps, concise list of sources consulted, name-lists of Associations board-members and various committees. Commemmorative review in honour of the Royal Dutch East-Indian Army, KNIL, describing personal and general war achievements in dutch colonial Indonesia, e.g. the japanese attack, defence, occupation and guerilla warfare, the liberation and surrender of Japan, March 1942-August 1945. Fine copy.

Keywords: war militaria operations guerilla resistance pacific war japan occupation history militaria knil army colonialism indonesia southeast asia