[Arbeidsdienst memorial books] (Memorial book)

"14 september 1884 - 14 september 1942. Aangeboden ter gelegenheid van den verjaardag van den Commandant der Nederl: Arb: Dienst generaalarbeidsleider L.A.C. de Bock." Photo album compiled and presented by Hendrik Antoon Lorentz "4-2 N.A.D. Gaasterland", with gouache and gold-heightened title page and 71 pasted photos (all 8 x 12.5 cm.) on 18 leaves, bound between wooden boards with on the front board a jigsawed relief with the symbol of the Arbeidsdienst (shovel), with metal lock, 23 x 32 cm.

Lieutenant colonel L.A.C. de Bock succeeded J.N. Breunese in 1941 as director of the N.A.D. He had been a member of the N.S.B. before the war and had become batallion commander with the 15th infantry regiment in 1938. Camp Gaasterland was one of numerous N.A.D. camps. Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (not the Nobel laureate...) was apparently stationed there. The photos show the football team, various parts of the camp, men working in groups and activities on a kind of sports day organised for the town children. See: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandse_Arbeidsdienst and Willem F. van Breen, De Nederlandse Arbeidsdienst 1940-1945, Zutphen 2004.