Original Dutch Netherlands Pre-WWI KNIL Royal Dutch Indian Army Officer Kepi Empire Edged Weapons - Standard issue OD wool

- Standard issue OD wool shirt with Sterling Silver Parachute Wings

We were only with the 145th for a short period and were reassigned to the 308th CAB

as virtually all of its contemporaries were single shot firearms

with the objective of capturing the bridges intact in order to allow a deep penetration into the German occupied Netherlands and to capture the key bridge crossing the River Rhine at Arnhem

primarily on the Western front during World War I

Original Dutch Netherlands Pre-WWI KNIL Royal Dutch Indian Army Officer Kepi Empire Edged Weapons - Standard issue OD woolOriginal Item: Only one Available. Here we have a very nice example of an early 20th century Dutch Kepie (Kepi), as issued to the Koninklijke Nederlandsch Indisch Leger (Royal Netherlands East Indies Army), usually abbreviated as KNIL. This area, usually referred to as the "Dutch East Indies", is today known as the country of Indonesia. Like most European Colonial holdings, military forces were raised from the local population for defense for both