Luitenant Creutz Lechleitner was the Dutch post commandant of Lam Koenjit in Groot-Atjeh at the time of the defection of Teukoe Oemar in March 1896, described by G. B. Hooijer as de immer waakzame postcommandant — the ever vigilant post commander.
Defence of Lam Koenjit
Hooijer recorded that Creutz Lechleitner hoped to be able to prevent the enemy from penetrating the post. Above the outwork surrounded by ijzerdraadversperring (wire entanglement), within which the kitchen stood, rose a watch-house from which the enemy’s approach could be barred. That watch-house bore as its inscription the name Eikhoren, and other signboards — such as In de Villa Sans Souci and In den Soldatenhemel: alles vrij behalve muskieten (“In the Soldiers’ Heaven: everything free except mosquitoes”) — proved sufficiently, in Hooijer’s judgment, that the Dutch soldiers did not yet consider the situation desperate and had kept their humour.
Entering the gate of the outwork, above which the name of the post was written, one had to turn left to enter the benteng itself, within whose bastions two 7½ cm. field-pieces and a cochoornmortier were mounted.
The night assault of 4–5 April 1896
In the night of 4 April to 5 April 1896 one of the bastions was stormed by the enemy, and, Hooijer wrote, had the gun there not been loaded with case-shot, that attack might have proved fatal to the Dutch.
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De verlaten posten in Groot-Atjeh, door G. B. Hooijer, Gep. Luit.-Kolonel O. I. Leger, met 24 platen (Haarlem: De Erven F. Bohn; Batavia: G. Kolff & Co., 1897). Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Centrale Boekerij, Amsterdam. OCR-filename: 20260719_140140_DLP-134-De_verlaten_posten_in_Groot_Atjeh_Nemotron-OCR-v2_OCR.txt, pp. 14, 18.