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Envelope to Sergeant Vlemmix N ° 95376 a.b Ms Volendam with Belgian postage stamps, addressed to Port Said Egypt (postmark Port Said). Shipping address E H Gilam Haarlem afterwards sent back to Repatriation Service The Hague, the Netherlands Nice postal routes but not immediately understandable to me the back of the letter also has several postmarks Research work on Volendam; (also the explanation why the ship, Volendam, was returned back ;;;; The "Volendam" was the first troop transport ship that left for the Dutch East Indies after the start of the First Police Actions. According to some (especially the communists) the ship led reinforcements for a "brutal imperialist colonial repression". It was a disaster trip. Numerous incidents occurred before and during the trip. Demonstrations along the supply routes in the Netherlands, the arrest of a frogman after a mine explosion at Hoek van Holland. This mine would have been intended for the "Volendam", but it hit a ship that left the Nieuwe Waterweg earlier. Later the refusal in Port Said, the highlight being the typhus epidemic that would kill two people
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