Regensburge was a Dutch lieutenant of infantry in Atjeh in 1876, one of the two officers of the garrison of the post Lemboeq N.O., in the chain of posts between Kota Alam and Moesapi. He was mortally wounded in the chest — the only officer killed — during the Atjehnese night assault on that post in the attack of 23-24 January 1876.
The night of 23–24 January 1876
The attack came between one and half past one in the morning: some twenty-five Atjehers sprang over the post’s low palisade and ran with lance and klewang for the soldiers’ quarters. As Regensburge hurried from his quarters towards one of the bastions — to take his place in the alarm defence — an Atjeher struck him a mortal blow in the chest. The enemy made off through the forced-open gate before the post commander Kal could close it; the counter-canister of the artillery sergeant ended the affair.
Regensburge’s death, with that of one native sergeant, one native corporal and one woman of the garrison, made the night the war’s first in a long recurring price of insufficiently storm-proof posts — the lesson H. F. Meijer drew verbatim in Atjeh van 26 December 1875 tot 4 September 1876 (1883).
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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. 105–106.