Overzicht van Onderscheidingen toegekend aan het Korps Maréchaussée in Atjeh en Onderhoorigheden (1890-1930)

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The Overzicht van Onderscheidingen toegekend aan het Korps Maréchaussée in Atjeh en Onderhoorigheden van 1890-1930 was the register of honours conferred on members of the Korps Maréchaussée, printed on the final two pages of the 1930 jubilee number of Het Nieuws van den Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië. It lists, year by year, awards of the Militaire Willems-Orde in the third and fourth classes, of the Eeresabel, and of the Orde van Oranje-Nassau.

Although its heading claims the period 1890–1930, the entries begin in 1897 with the award of the Militaire Willems-Orde 3rd class to Kapt. Mar. Jhr. G. J. W. C. Graafland — the officer whose name, as the editorial observed, “prijkt bovenaan op de lijst van geridderde Maréchaussées.”

The register

The Overzicht is printed on pages 15 and 16 of the jubilee number, arranged by year. Where the source supplies a register number (Alg. Stb.) it is given.

1897

1898

1899

1900

1902

1903

1904

  • Militaire Willems-Orde 3rd class — Onderluit. Mar. H. Christoffel, Alg. Stb. No. 22174
  • Militaire Willems-Orde 4th class — 1ste Luit. Mar. M. J. B. H. Campioni
  • Eeresabel — 1ste Luit. Mar. M. J. B. H. Campioni

1905

Gajo- en Alaslanden

1906

1908

1909

1910

1911

  • Militaire Willems-Orde 3rd class — Amb. Mar. Th. Nussy, Alg. Stb. No. 40434
  • Eeresabel — 1ste Luit. Mar. H. J. Schmidt

1912

  • Militaire Willems-Orde 3rd class — Eur. Sergt. Mar. W. J. Mosselman, Alg. Stb. No. 58330
  • Eeresabel — Kapt. Mar. H. Behrens, since promoted major

1913

  • Militaire Willems-Orde 3rd class — 1ste Luit. Mar. H. J. Schmidt

1914

  • Militaire Willems-Orde 4th class — 1ste Luit. Mar. H. Behrens
  • Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau — Majoor v/h Korps Mar. Th. J. Veltman
  • Ridder in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau — Kapt. Mar. W. Muurling

1915

  • Militaire Willems-Orde 4th class — 1ste Luit. Mar. H. Scheurleer

1925

1927

  • Entered in the registers as knight of the Militaire Willems-Orde 4th class — 1ste Luit. Mar. W. A. Molenaar

1928

  • Ridder in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau — Kapt. Mar. J. C. J. Bongers, since replaced with the arm of the Infantry
  • Ridder in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau — 1ste Luit. Mar. H. Meijer

The editors’ note on the limits of the list

A footnote in the jubilee number explains that the editors would gladly have reproduced the long list in its entirety, but that lack of space compelled them to confine themselves to the officers and onderluitenants, and to report only those non-commissioned officers and men who had been granted the knight’s cross of the Militaire Willems-Orde 3rd class — “een zeldzame onderscheiding, die in totaal slechts aan elf leden van het Korps Maréchaussée is toegekend” — a rare distinction, granted in total to only eleven members of the Corps Maréchaussée: five officers, one onderluitenant, four sergeants and one soldier, “den zoo bekenden Nussy.”

The editors expressed the hope that in a memorial volume to be issued one day, all the decorated, without distinction, would be named. A further editorial note recorded that the forthcoming number of the Indisch Militair Tijdschrift was to be devoted entirely to the Korps Maréchaussée.

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Source

Het Korps Maréchaussée in Atjeh: De Atjehsche Garde, 1890 - 2 April 1930, Extra Jubileum-nummer of Het Nieuws van den Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië issued for the fortieth anniversary of the corps (1930), pp. 1-16. Offprint DLP-143, Bibliotheek KITLV, accession 621 116 794.

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