The medical officers 1st class Kroon and 2nd class Kunert were the two surgeons of the Netherlands Indies Army in Atjeh in 1876 who accompanied, at their military post and at the dressing stations of the attacking troops, and with the greatest care and coolness attended the numerous wounded during the storming of Lambaroe on 7 March 1876.
Lambaroe
The only medical officer of the column was attached to it from Longbatah Zuid because a single surgeon would, in case of the expected hot fighting, fall short: at the column commander’s request, the medical officer 1st class Kroon — stationed at Longbatah Zuid — received orders to follow the march. In the fight at Lambaroe the ground offered no place where the dressing stations could be set up outside the enemy fire, so both doctors had to expose themselves with their people to it. The hardest and most dangerous task fell to Kunert, whose dressing station had been placed with the rearguard of the right half of the 3rd battalion — already fired on during the approach to Lambaroe. With 25 stretchers (tandoes) the wounded were carried from the field.
H. F. Meijer, printing the account in Atjeh van 26 December 1875 tot 4 September 1876 (1883), expressly reminds his reader, where the storming officers are named, not to forget Kroon and Kunert: their own task did not place them in the foreground, but they had been in very difficult and dangerous circumstances during the fight. Kroon returned to his post at the end of the day.
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Atjeh van 26 December 1875 tot 4 September 1876, door H. F. Meijer (Breda: P. B. Nieuwenhuijs, 1883), chapter VI, pp. 126, 137, 141.