The Military ranks of the Netherlands armed forces are the military insignia used by the armed forces of the Netherlands.
Royal Netherlands Army
Current ranks
;Officer ranks
;Enlisted ranks
The Dutch titles for privates are:
Timeline of ranks
;Officer ranks
;Enlisted ranks
Royal Netherlands Air Force
Current ranks
;Officer ranks
Netherlands-AirForce-King.svg, The rank insignia worn by the king
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when in Air Force uniform.
;Enlisted ranks
Timeline of ranks
Royal Netherlands Navy
Current ranks
;Officer ranks
;Enlisted ranks
Timeline of changes
Royal Marechaussee
Current ranks
;Officer ranks
;Enlisted ranks
Timeline of ranks
;Officer ranks
;Enlisted ranks
Cadet ranks at the Royal Military Academy and Royal Naval College
Overseas forces
;Officer ranks
;Enlisted ranks
Former ranks
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* (Field)
Marshal
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), OF-10 of the Royal Netherlands Army, abolished in 1914.
* Further in the past there were other ranks: (
General admiral), ' (Lieutenant General Admiral), and (
Captain General
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History
The term "Captain General" started to appear in the 14th century, with the meaning of Command ...
).
* The (Technical Supervisor) and (Supervisor) ranks were discontinued in 1977.
* The rank of (
Bandmaster
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British Armed Forces
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) has been discontinued (the insignia was the same as that of Adjudant).
* The rank of (Under Lieutenant) existed in the
Royal Netherlands East Indies Army
The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army ( nl, Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger; KNIL, ) was the military force maintained by the Kingdom of the Netherlands in its colony of the Dutch East Indies, in areas that are now part of Indonesia. The ...
. An was the highest non-commissioned officer rank, between and . After demobilizing the KNIL, professional soldiers were allowed to return or transfer to the Royal Netherlands Army or the (the predecessor of the Royal Netherlands Air Force), while maintaining their rank. The rank insignia for in the KNIL (and later the Royal Army) consisted of two dots.
Jacques Willem van Asdonck (
Rangkasbitung
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,
West Java
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, 1914) was the last to leave active service in 1969.
References
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External links
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