CAVALRY OFFICERS OF THE NETHERLANDS

(Serving from 1813 to 1815)

By Geert van Uythoven

Karseboom, C.

born: 1772

in service: 1778 honourable discharge:

2nd lieutenant: 1783 pensioned:

1st lieutenant: 1792 died: 25 March 1814

cavalry-captain: 23 January 1814

MWO:

Orde Ned. Leeuw:

Eerv. verm.:

Kenens, Pierre

born: Herck-la-Ville (Limbourg, Be), 30-04-1790

in service: 1 June 1813 (French army) honourable discharge: 22 September 1831 (Netherlands army)

2nd lieutenant: 28 November 1813 pensioned:

1st lieutenant: 10 February 1816 died: Brussels (Be), 7 February 1852

cavalry-captain: 5 May 1825 5de Regiment Lichte Dragonders

major: 7 July 1832 (Belgian army) MWO: 4th Class Knight 16 November 1830

lieutenant-colonel: 21 July 1843 Orde Ned. Leeuw:

colonel: 8 April 1847 Eerv. verm.:

* Former French army: garde in the 2me Régiment Garde d’Honneur, later sous-lieutenant: dismissed 29 June 1814; 1814 campaign in Saxony and siege of Mayence; Chevalier Légion d’Honneur; Netherlands service; entered Belgian service 1832, becoming a colonelin the gendarmerie nationale.

Keppel, A.J.R. Baron van

born: 1774

in service: 1790 honourable discharge:

2nd lieutenant: 26 March 1791 pensioned: 3 June 1815

1st lieutenant: 23 January 1814 died: 26 September 1842

cavalry-captain:

major: MWO:

lieutenant-colonel: Orde Ned. Leeuw:

colonel: Eerv. verm.:

Kerchove d’Hallebast, Lamoral Léopold Charles van de

born: Velaines (Be), 30-07-1796

in service: 1813 (French army) honourable discharge:

2nd lieutenant: 11 September 1814 pensioned: 9 October 1832 (placed on half-pay, Netherlands army))

1st lieutenant: 18 April 1822 died: Tournai (Be), 23 May 1876

cavalry-captain: 30 April 1832 8ste Regiment Huzaren

major: ??? MWO:

lieutenant-colonel: ??? Orde Ned. Leeuw:

colonel: ??? Eerv. verm.:

* French service: 2me Régiment Garde d’Honneur; Netherlands service; Belgian service, died as a colonel; Belgian Order of Leopold.

Knyff, Jacques Antoine Eduard Baron de

born: Brussels (Be), 13-10-1787

in service: 1805 honourable discharge: 8 January 1831

2nd lieutenant: 1 December 1805 pensioned:

1st lieutenant: 20 October 1807 died: Enghien (Be), 17 September 1877

cavalry-captain: 16 March 1811

major: 29 March 1813 MWO:

lieutenant-colonel: Orde Ned. Leeuw: Knight 12 March 1816

colonel: 21 September 1814 Eerv. verm.:

major-general: 21 July 1822

* Formerly belonging to the court of Joachim Murat, King of Naples; Légion d’Honneur; Netherlands service: ADC to the Prince of Orange.

Koltrop, G.F.

born: 1769

in service: 1788 honourable discharge:

2nd lieutenant: 15 March 1795 pensioned: 4 June 1822

1st lieutenant: 8 July 1803 died: 28 September 1851

cavalry-captain: 2 January 1814

major: MWO: 4th Class Knight 18 July 1815

lieutenant-colonel: Orde Ned. Leeuw:

colonel: Eerv. verm.:

König, Adriaan Anthonius

born: 1802

in service: 1813 honourable discharge:

2nd lieutenant: 15 May 1821 pensioned: 18 April 1866

1st lieutenant: 16 April 1830 died: 21 March 1875

cavalry-captain: 22 October 1836

major: 7 October 1849 MWO: 4th Class Knight 12 October 1831

lieutenant-colonel: 15 January 1852 Orde Ned. Leeuw: Knight 6 December 1845

colonel: 29 April 1854 Eerv. verm.:

major-general: 18 April 1866

Koning, A. de

born: 1785

in service: 1803 honourable discharge:

2nd lieutenant: 8 February 1813 pensioned:

1st lieutenant: 30 December 1814 died: 22 December 1822

cavalry-captain: 17 June 1818

major: MWO:

lieutenant-colonel: Orde Ned. Leeuw:

colonel: Eerv. verm.:

* Transferred to the army of the Dutch East-Indies 31 December 1816

Kooy, W.

born: 1794

in service: 1815 honourable discharge:

2nd lieutenant: 3 September 1823 pensioned:

1st lieutenant: 16 April 1830 died: 7 October 1835

cavalry-captain:

major: MWO: 4th Class Knight 16 November 1830

lieutenant-colonel: Orde Ned. Leeuw:

colonel: Eerv. verm.:

Koster, M.

born: 1794

in service: 1815 honourable discharge:

2nd lieutenant: 19 February 1819 pensioned: 14 August 1843

1st lieutenant: 16 April 1830 died: 11 July 1861

cavalry-captain: 7 November 1832

major: MWO:

lieutenant-colonel: Orde Ned. Leeuw:

colonel: Eerv. verm.:

Kraijenhoff, Cornelis Johannes Baron

born: 1788

in service: 1799 honourable discharge:

2nd lieutenant: 10 May 1806 pensioned: 17 May 1828

1st lieutenant: 10 November 1809 died: 21 July 1865

cavalry-captain: October 1811 (French army) / 24 February 1814 (Netherlands army)

major: 18 May 1820 MWO: 4th Class Knight 11 August 1815

lieutenant-colonel: Orde Ned. Leeuw:

colonel: Eerv. verm.:

major-general: Wounded at Waterloo (4de Regiment Lichte Dragonders)

* Oldest son of Lieutenant-General Cornelis Rudolfus Theodorus baron Krayenhoff of the engineers; 12me Cuirassiers 1811; 14me Cuirassiers in 1812, Russian campaign, prisoner of war.

Kreitzig, C.S.

born: 1785 killed: 18 June 1815 (Waterloo)

in service: 1811 4de Regiment Lichte Dragonders

2nd lieutenant: 18 February 1813

1st lieutenant: 23 January 1814

cavalry-captain: 5 April 1815

Kretschmar, A.A. van

born: 1795

in service: 1809 honourable discharge: 18 October 1817

2nd lieutenant: 15 February 1816 pensioned:

1st lieutenant: died: 16 June 1874

cavalry-captain:

major: MWO:

lieutenant-colonel: Orde Ned. Leeuw:

colonel: Eerv. verm.:

Kretschmar van Wijk, G.G. van

born: 1786

in service: 1804 honourable discharge:

2nd lieutenant: 28 June 1805 pensioned: 14 August 1843

1st lieutenant: 4 May 1808 died: 21 April 1868

cavalry-captain: 21 June 1815

major: 19 march 1831 MWO:

lieutenant-colonel: 3 January 1839 Orde Ned. Leeuw: Knight 8 October 1842

colonel: Eerv. verm.: