Netherlands Artillery
in the Waterloo Campaign
Part II:
The Netherlands Artillery Officers
Godfried Jacob Holsman
reviewed by Geert van Uythoven, The Netherlands
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On 5 January 1807 Holsman was assigned to Horse artillery company no.3 as a 1st lieutenant. No further information about this period was available to me. In 1814 he received command of the 2nd Line artillery battalion, holding the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Later he was ordered to Louvain to supervise the making mobile of both batteries forming the artillery reserve. During the Waterloo campaign he commanded the reserve batteries. On 27 October 1815 he was appointed ‘Director of the artillery park’, having the supervision over the material and equipment of fourteen field batteries, of which six would have to be mobile at all times. On 4 January 1820, Holsman was promoted major-general (of the infantry?). Netherlands Artillery in the Waterloo Campaign 1815 Part II: Artillery Officers
Adriaan Bijleveld David Esaias Bode (Boode) Lodewijk Hendrik Du Bois A.Willem Du Pont Adrianus Rudolf Willem Gey Carel August Gunkel (Gunckel) Godfried Jacob Holsman Nicolaas Lodewijk Kaempfer Carel Frederik Krahmer de Bichin Martinus Antonius Kuytenbrouwer Frederik Carel List Johannes Hendrik Lux Prince (William) Frederick Carl van Oranje-Nassau (Willem Frederik Karel, Prins der Nederlanden) Abraham Petter Carel Jan Riesz Johan George Hendrik Scheffer Jacques-Louis-Dominique, Baron van der Smissen Johannes Nicolaas Spies Maximilian-Henry Steenberghe Emmanuel-Joseph Stevenart Hendrik Rudolph Trip Pieter Wijnands Leopold Winssinger Netherlands Artillery in the Waterloo Campaign 1815 Part I [FE71]
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