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In The Hague on September 26, 1510, a Belgian official wrote to Count van Zuylen van Nijevelt, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, requesting information about Louis Petersen, who had written a letter from Palembang on October 17, 1859.
Petersen's letter to his parents from Palembang describes difficult conditions for Dutch soldiers in the Dutch East Indies. Of 110 men who arrived in Batavia, 25 were sent to Palembang, where 19 died. During the expedition to Gieti, many comrades died not from combat but from hardship. Of 100 soldiers sent to the Indies, 90 died from miserable conditions. Petersen notes that while quick death in battle is not feared, death from misery is the worst fate. He compares the poor provisions unfavorably to Belgian or French military service.
The Belgian official requested that if Petersen was deceased, an official death certificate and information about any inheritance should be provided.
Transcription
Afschuift.
kegalion
1
de
Belgique.
N. 515.
La Haye, le 26 Siptimbro 1510.
Monsieur le Cornte,
Pour satisfaire aid disir que m‛a exprimé mon Gouoirnd.
ment j'ai l‛honner ad prier Voto Exulluee li vouloir
me foamis des Eenseigniments Teerle fort dus
nomme Poyis Petersen, sig nataire de la littre
Ci jointe, datée A Calimbans de 17octobre
1659. Cette lettre unfirme tous les ditailes
Gue la famille Petersens Juiss
fournir.
En cas ae Aéés de l‛individu pri„
Cité, je Serais obligi a Votr Excellines,
de douloir bien me transmittre, dument
legalisé, une expeditions de son Acté
de dicis et des rendcignimunts sur las
succession qu'il pourrait avoir Ailausé.
Veuilliz aquéer, Monsieur ld Comte„
les assurancer de ma plun haute Considiratio
1911 8om A Mo. Pijck
Son Excellence, H.
Monsieur le Comte ad Zuylen
de Nijevelt, Minitre der Affain,
Otrangenes, etc. Hte. Ae.
La Haye.
kegalion
1
de
Belgique.
N. 515.
La Haye, le 26 Siptimbro 1510.
Monsieur le Cornte,
Pour satisfaire aid disir que m‛a exprimé mon Gouoirnd.
ment j'ai l‛honner ad prier Voto Exulluee li vouloir
me foamis des Eenseigniments Teerle fort dus
nomme Poyis Petersen, sig nataire de la littre
Ci jointe, datée A Calimbans de 17octobre
1659. Cette lettre unfirme tous les ditailes
Gue la famille Petersens Juiss
fournir.
En cas ae Aéés de l‛individu pri„
Cité, je Serais obligi a Votr Excellines,
de douloir bien me transmittre, dument
legalisé, une expeditions de son Acté
de dicis et des rendcignimunts sur las
succession qu'il pourrait avoir Ailausé.
Veuilliz aquéer, Monsieur ld Comte„
les assurancer de ma plun haute Considiratio
1911 8om A Mo. Pijck
Son Excellence, H.
Monsieur le Comte ad Zuylen
de Nijevelt, Minitre der Affain,
Otrangenes, etc. Hte. Ae.
La Haye.
Source citation
National Archives / Archives South Holland, archive number 2.10.02, Inventaris van het archief van het Ministerie van Koloniën, 1850-1900, inventory number 990, OPENBAAR ARCHIEF 1850-1900, Verbalen, Verbalen, 1860 okt. 4 - 6
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