Emond was a member of the Korps Maréchaussée in Atjeh, one of the non-commissioned members of the corps named by Colonel L. A. Snell among the men who ought not to be forgotten when the great names of the corps were recited.

Snell’s roll of the simple of soul

Interviewed for the 1930 jubilee number of Het Nieuws van den Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië, Colonel L. A. Snell first named the great pioneers of the corps — Graafland, Van Daalen, Colijn, Swart, Van der Maaten and above all J. B. van Heutsz — and then added: “Maar wanneer ik namen noem, dan dienen ook de eenvoudigen van ziel aan de vergetelheid te worden onttrokken” — but when I name names, then the simple of soul too ought to be rescued from oblivion.

The list he gave was: Marks, Frank, Mosselman, Heynen, Emond, Rugebregt, Salawono, Kasir, Wowor, Nussy and Kromo-di-Koro — “te veel om op te noemen, de dappersten onder de dapperen” — too many to name, the bravest among the brave.

Of such men Snell said that many had fallen, “doch hun geest blijft in het Korps voortleven; de herinnering aan hun daden blijft bewaard” — but their spirit lives on in the corps; the memory of their deeds is preserved.

The jubilee number gives no further particulars of this man beyond his name in that roll.

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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.