Ramoudin was a native sergeant (Inlandsch sergeant) of the Netherlands East Indies Army, serving in the 2nd Company of the 6e Bataljon Infanterie in the Lamtoba column of 1879. He is singled out by name in W. Cool and G. B. Hooijer’s Eene schoone bladzijde uit Atjeh’s geschiedenis (1889) as the first man inside the Achehnese entrenchment stormed on 13 August 1879 during the march to Selimoen — the luitenant-adjudant Popelier being the second.
The affair of 13 August 1879
The work carried by the storm — the earthen trench of more than a hundred paces, fronted by an abatis and flanked by a palisaded tamboer beyond the burnt kampong of Kepaja Doewa — was defended by a party that fled into the deep ravine behind at the moment the flanking peloton of the 2nd Company, led by Captain Clerkson, came upon the parapet. So impetuous was the rush that a soldier of the company seized a fleeing Achehnese by the head and was left with only the man’s head-cloth in his grasp. Of the honour of the entry the narrative fixes the order precisely: “Een Inlandsch sergeant Ramoudin was de eerste, de Luitenant-Adjudant Popelier de tweede in de versterking.” The naming of the native non-commissioned officer in this connection is one of the few occasions on which the book distinguishes by name a ranker of the native companies.
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Eene schoone bladzijde uit Atjeh’s geschiedenis, door W. Cool en G. B. Hooijer (‘s-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1889), p. 40. OCR-filename: 20260720_115822_DLP-135-Eene_schoone_bladzijde_uit_Atjeh_s_geschiedenis_Nemotron_OCR_v2_OCR.txt.