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1815 Dutch-Belgian cavalry commemorated (2013)

Last Friday 14 June at the cavalry monument near the crossroads of Quatre Bras the annual official military commemoration was held in honour of the Dutch-Belgian fallen and wounded in the cavalry regiments in 1815. In his speech the chairman of the 'Stichting Cavaleriemonument Quatre Bras / Waterloo' their comrades in the infantry and artillery were not forgotten. It was an exceptional commemoration where representatives of current regiments of both the Dutch army and the Belgian army tracing back their proud history to the 1815 regiments attended and paid hommage to comrades of the past.

Dutch Belgian cavalry 1815 Waterloo

 

Photographs kindly provided by former NCO of the 'Regiment Huzaren van Boreel' , Mr. P. v.d. Merwe.

(Also see here furthermore exciting news on the Netherlands cavalry and a new monument at Quatre Bras unvailed in 2014!!!!!)

 

As author I was very proud to have been invited and attend the ceremony, including afterwards giving a speech to a respectable audience during a wonderful lunch on my own discoveries on the Dutch-Belgian cavalry in 1815.

Dutch-Belgian cavalry 1815

 

  

Dutch-Belgian cavalry 1815

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