Netherlands - Army/Infantry - Medal
Inherited from own family and kept for years. The Badge of Honor for Order and Peace was instituted by Royal Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands on December 2, 1947. The decoration was instituted while the first of the so-called police actions, the so-called "Operation Product", an unsuccessful attempt to bring the island kingdom in the East back under Dutch authority by military force, was still in progress. Tens of thousands of Dutch military personnel had to be rewarded for their deployment and the high-spirited title indicates the aspiration of the Dutch to restore what they saw as "order and peace", the Indonesians would call it "colonial oppression".
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Inherited from own family and kept for years. The Badge of Honor for Order and Peace was instituted by Royal Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands on December 2, 1947. The decoration was instituted while the first of the so-called police actions, the so-called "Operation Product", an unsuccessful attempt to bring the island kingdom in the East back under Dutch authority by military force, was still in progress. Tens of thousands of Dutch military personnel had to be rewarded for their deployment and the high-spirited title indicates the aspiration of the Dutch to restore what they saw as "order and peace", the Indonesians would call it "colonial oppression".
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