One veteran's account details service in the Dutch armed forces and deployment to New Guinea. The interview covers enlistment, training, the voyage on the ship De Waterman, and experiences in the jungle, including insufficient preparation and provisions. The dataset is provided by the Veteranen Instituut and was last updated in October 2025.
Use Cases
- Analyzing veteran narratives based on personal reflections on military service mentioned in the description.
- Studying colonial military operations based on accounts of capturing prisoners and interactions with the Papoea Vrijwilligers Korps.
- Researching the psychological and logistical challenges of deployment based on descriptions of jungle living conditions and rising tensions.
Strengths
- First-person historical account from a specific veteran, providing a detailed narrative.
- Dataset is hosted by a dedicated institution (Veteranen Instituut) and curated by DANS, a national data archive.
- Last update timestamp (2025-10-24) indicates recent metadata maintenance.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Veteranen Instituut
- Collection Method
- Oral history interview.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-10-24 03:24:09
- Geography
- New Guinea