Mineur Van Dijk (European sapper, pay-list no. 55557) was a Dutch sapper (mineur) of the engineers in Atjeh in 1876, who was mortally wounded in the ambush of 17 July 1876 between Boekit Daroe and Ketapan Doewa and died of his wound on the same day.
17 July 1876
Attached with 10 forced-labourers to the combined escort of corporals Wensting and Wijnen — to fetch materials from Pakan Badak — Van Dijk marched in the middle of the little column with the forced-labourers and the sick man on a stretcher. When the flank volley of 40–50 Atjehers struck the column along the grass field, the forced-labourers fled for Djempit and he remained with the fighting soldiers. He was among the two wounded of the affair, and died of his wound that day.
His name appears in the official report printed by H. F. Meijer in Atjeh van 26 December 1875 tot 4 September 1876 (1883).
See Also
- Ambush between Boekit Daroe and Ketapan Doewa (17 July 1876)
- Korporaal Wensting
- Boekit Daroe
- Guerilla warfare in Groot-Atjeh
Source
Atjeh van 26 December 1875 tot 4 September 1876, door H. F. Meijer (Breda: P. B. Nieuwenhuijs, 1883), chapter VII, pp. 230–231.