Eerste Divisie 7 December

Divisi dinamai setelah pidato Ratu Wilhelmina di London pada tanggal 7 Desember 1942, di mana dia menyatakan : "I imagine, without prejudice to the government conference's advice, that they will focus on a National Association, which the Netherlands, Indonesia, Suriname and Curaçao will have participated together, while each in itself, its own autonomy in internal affairs and drawing on their own, but together with the will to assist, will represent. It will be difference of treatment based on race or national character have no place, but will only have the personal ability of citizens and the needs of different populations for the decisive policy of the Government."