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| | goDutch.com :: Veterans ‘Prinses Irene Brigade’ help celebrate unit’s 60th anniversary |
 | | Instead of the customary 3,000 to 4,000 personnel, the Prinses Irene Brigade never totalled more than approximately 2,000 men at one time, while perhaps only 3,000 people in total ever were part of it. |
 | | The Fusiliers always can be recognized by their cordon, an orange-and-blue braid which is issued to each new Fuselier by World War II veterans. |
 | | The unit received its colours from then Queen Wilhelmina, Beatrix’ grandmother, on August 27, 1941, and was renamed Koninklijke Nederlandse Brigade ‘Prinses Irene.’ The unit became known as the Prinses Irene Brigade, a moniker still more common to the unit than the current ‘Garderegiment Fusiliers Prinses Irene,’ the name it received in 1952. |
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