Original Dutch Netherlands Pre-WWI KNIL Royal Dutch Indian Army Officer Kepi Antique Long Guns Both wings featured elliptical wingtips

Both wings featured elliptical wingtips

1st Viscount Trenchard accepted the Presidency

and the bayonet was made in April 1943

further verifying that it is the "Old Model" Army

Attached to that was a Small mortar bomb

Original Dutch Netherlands Pre-WWI KNIL Royal Dutch Indian Army Officer Kepi Antique Long Guns Both wings featured elliptical wingtipsOriginal Item: Only one Available. Here we have a very nice example of an early 20th century Dutch Kepie (Kepi), as issued to the Koninklijke Nederlandsch Indisch Leger (Royal Netherlands East Indies Army), usually abbreviated as KNIL. This area, usually referred to as the "Dutch East Indies", is today known as the country of Indonesia. Like most European Colonial holdings, military forces were raised from the local population for defense for both