Bronze Cross (Netherlands)

Infobox Military Award
name=Bronze Cross


caption
awarded_by=the Kingdom of the Netherlands
type=Military award
eligibility=Military Personnel, merchant navy and civilians in the resistance
for=Acts of courage and leadership in the face of the enemy.
campaign= World War II and later campaigns
status=Currently awarded
description=The medal is a bronze cross pattée. A wreath consisting of tendrils of oak and laurel leaves is tied around the royal cypher.
The orange ribbon has a Nassau blue stripe in the center. Orange is the colour of the Queen, the head of the House of Orange, and blue is the heraldic colour of the ancestral house of Nassau.
clasps=none; if the cross is awarded again a large Arabic golden figure "2" or "3" is attached to the ribbon.
established=
first_award=11 June 1940
last_award=In 2007 to Marine Corporal D.A. Vonk for his actions in Cambodia
total=3,498
posthumous=Posthumous awards are possible
recipients=
individual=
higher=Resistance Star East Asia
lower=Cross of Merit


caption2=Ribbon bar of the Bronze CrossThe Bronze Cross of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: "Het Bronzen Kruis") was instituted on 11 June 1940 by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands while she was residing in London during the German occupation of the Netherlands. The cross is the second highest Dutch award for bravery currently awarded after the Military Order of William.

Several British, American, Canadian and Polish soldiers are among the 3,498 recipients of the Bronze Cross that is awarded by Royal Decree.