Van Haften was a Dutch second lieutenant of infantry in Atjeh in 1876, serving at Boekit Daroe, who led the relief patrol of 28 August 1876 to the detachment attacked in the Lo-oe ambush.
28 August 1876
When heavy rifle fire was heard from the post in northwestern direction, about half an hour after the escort of corporal De Jong had marched, the post commander of Boekit Daroe at once sent a patrol of 25 bayonets under Van Haften to hurry to its aid. Taking the short road by kampong Tjabang, the lieutenant first met the fleeing corporal with two fusiliers, then — guided along by them — found Wirokromo standing in closed order with his nine Javanese fusiliers at 250 paces from the ambush place, and the field with the fallen: the African fusilier Zerk, a dead Atjeher, and five wounded fusiliers. His men collected the wounded, searched in vain for the last missing, drowned European fusilier, and escorted the terribly thinned escort — now completed by part of his patrol and placed under the African corporal Bamberg — on to its destination. By half past nine his patrol was back behind the palisades of Boekit Daroe.
The events are recorded by H. F. Meijer 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 VII, pp. 261–262.