An
item dated Den Helder the 4th reported the departure of 12 former
soldiers which served in the Dutch East Indies with the Dutch frigate ship
Pieter from Rotterdam towards St. George d’Elmina.(1) Three of them
were highly decorated with the Ridderkruis of the Militaire Willemsorde and two
women which had the same decoration earned for blowing up so-engcalled bentings (fortifications) of
the enemy [in the Dutch East Indies].
Note
1.
Nowadays Ghana, in 1862
still part of the Dutch Gold Coast, in 1871 handed over to England.
Possible this item was dealing with Africans which served in the Dutch colonial
navy in the Dutch East Indies.
