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===Origin/meaning===
===Origin/meaning===
The Badge is based on the Arms of Willem van der Zaan (1621-1669), Rear-Admiral of the Amsterdam Admirality. Distiguished himself in the First and Second Anglo-Dutch Wars and in fighting Pirates in the Mediterranean. Killed in Action fighting algerian Pirates on 17 March 1669. The Badge was approved on 11 June 1952.
The badge is based on the Arms of Willem van der Zaan (1621-1669), Rear-Admiral of the Amsterdam Admirality. Distiguished himself in the First and Second Anglo-Dutch Wars and in fighting Pirates in the Mediterranean. Killed in Action fighting algerian Pirates on 17 March 1669. The badge was approved on 11 June 1952.


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