Who am I? Well my name is Tom and I am a Dane living in Copenhagen the Capital of Denmark. My first contact with the Dutch population as an adult was in 1991 when I participated in the 4 days march at Nijmegen for the first time as a Petty Officer in the Navy Home Guard.

Then why does a Dane who cannot speak or write Dutch or as far as I know has no family relations interest in this part of History? Because I have always been interested in military and colonial history. The lesser known the better and this part of history is less known at least to the part of the world who cannot speak Dutch I will say.

Of course there is a reason I choose to research the Tijger Brigade. Since this research is done in my spare time for my own funds I had to concentrate on a special area as not to drown myself in information. Then in 2001 I bought a computer and started to surf on the Internet. Here I met Maria Sutherland a marvellous lady who has a homepage about her dad who served in 1^st Regiment Stoottroepen of the Tijger Brigade. And believing there is always one more information to get I told her and today I have a few pages on her site.

What really got me started was when I found out the Verbindings Afdeeling Tijger Brigade hosted a reunion and decided to contact them. And today I believe I have been in contact with around 80 veterans from different Tijger units together with my good friend Marianne de Jong who is daughter of a veteran from 2-6 Regiment Infanterie. And this homepage I hope will end up giving a good picture of the life of the Tijger Brigade and supporting arms.

You can help too. If you are a veteran of the Tijger Brigade, an airman or sailor who served in Semarang or a family member who know one I will be grateful for your information. Since I believe every veteran has a story worth hearing. You can contact me on tijgerbrigade@yahoo.dk and I sure will return.

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