Kamp was a controleur of the Binnenlandsch Bestuur who marched, in August 1879, with the column of Majoor Lubeck from Indrapoeri to Selimoen during the Selimoen expedition, as the civil officer charged with the political handling of the chiefs. He is mentioned once by name in W. Cool and G. B. Hooijer’s Eene schoone bladzijde uit Atjeh’s geschiedenis (1889).
Mediation at Selimoen
At the occupation of Selimoen on 15 August 1879, when the Lamtoba column arrived a day after Lubeck’s force, it was “door tusschenkomst van den bij die colonne ingedeelden controleur Kamp” — through the mediation of the controleur posted with that column — that Majoor Lubeck had given Toekoe Moeda Daud, the newly submitted head of Selimoen, ground to hope that the bivak for the second column would be laid wholly outside the kampong, as a mark of respect to the population that had remained within it. The hope was not realised: Overste Gerlach, who now assumed the general command, judged that his soldiers, after the hardships they had endured and must yet endure, had a claim to better lodging — “hetgeen de overwinnaar voorzeker ook het recht had te eischen” — and quartered the bivak against the kampong’s edge on the right bank of the Selimoen river, assigning certain houses of the departed refugees of the XXII and XXVI Moekims, with Toekoe Moeda Daud’s consent, to the use of the troops.
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Eene schoone bladzijde uit Atjeh’s geschiedenis, door W. Cool en G. B. Hooijer (‘s-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1889), pp. 53-54. OCR-filename: 20260720_115822_DLP-135-Eene_schoone_bladzijde_uit_Atjeh_s_geschiedenis_Nemotron_OCR_v2_OCR.txt.