The Netherlands Regiment Aan en Afvoer Troepen 1967 part 2
continued from The Netherlands Regiment Aan en Afvoer Troepen 1967
How did a 1950 insigna got on to a 1967 beret?
I got this beret from Henk van der Giessen he was a conscripted and served in the army in the years 1967 -1968
as an officer cadet in dutch "Vaandrig"
Henk wrote me how the 1950 insigna got onto an 1967 beret:
As I wrote: rustling! As an vaandrig, of course, it was necessary to wear an old emblem.
Yes Bert. When you 'sit close to the fire, you warm yourself best'. Or arranging something is nice. You belonged to it, if you had an old inscription in my conscription time 1967 - 1968.
They military stores still had some old insignas on stock.
E3G127 is the laundry identification number for H. vd Giessen
In May 1968 Henk was a 23 year old dïenstplichtig vaandrig, in this picture he is at the far left, wearing this beret. He was the bivouac Commander of a group of corporals (TS's) and new soldiers of a heavy transport company in the Drunense Duinen.
Later he became Staff Officer S1 with a deployable Transport Battalion (814 TBAT). Wibo Aris of Road Air TMI Schiphol was Cdt. We did the Last Repetition Exercise of NL in Ossendrecht in 1992.
Find Henk at Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henk-van-der-giessen-545a11181/
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