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• Adelborsten R.Z., Willemsoord
• Aegir, Groningen
• Aegir, Hillegersberg
• Alkmaarsche R.Z.
• Alphen aan den Rijn ZV
• Amer, Drimmelen
• Amstel, Amsterdam
• Amsterdam WV
• Argo, Wageningen

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Adelborsten R.Z., Willemsoord

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Adelborsten Roei- en Zeilvereniging, Willemsoord - blue burgee with at top hoist a white crown, and at hoist bottom a white
anchor.
Adelborsten are seacadets, being trained in the marine-estalishment Willemsoord in Den Helder (Noord-Holland) (KIM - Koninklijk Instituut voor de Marine). This club was prohibited by the Germans in 1940.
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Aegir, Groningen

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Groninger Roei vereniging "Aegir", Groningen. A white burgee with a red five-pointed star.
Aegir is the rowing club of the student society "Vindicat atque Polit", the largest society. It was founded in 1878 and is still going strong.
Jarig Bakker, 7 Sep 2004

Dutch student rowing clubs in general don't use burgees, just the club-flag. For the Groninger "Aegir" student society only a rectangular flag is used.
Jeroen van Leeuwen, 21 Mar 2005

Aegir, Hillegersberg

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Watersport Vereniging "Aegir", Hillegersberg (Rotterdam) - a red burgee with at the hoist a white saltire.
It has its own homepage. Now named Watersport Vereniging Aegir, Rotterdam, founded 16 Jun 1926 - it still uses the same burgee.
There are several clubs named Aegir, the most notable being in Groningen.
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Alkmaarsche R.Z.

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Alkmaarsche Roei- en Zeilvereniging, Alkmaar (Noord-Holland) - white with a red diamond charged with a white castle.
That is still the club's logo - see its homepage - it was founded in 1910 and has at present 900 members. The burgee has remained the same; the castle is the city of Alkmaar's factotum.
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Alphen aan den Rijn ZV

Watersportvereniging Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland province, after image on this website: red burgee with a black compass-rose within a white steering wheel; at the hoist white letters wva.
The club was founded in 1971.
Jarig Bakker, 8 Dec 2004

Amer, Drimmelen

Watersportvereniging De Amer, after image on this website: triband RWR with in the center a blue diamond. De Amer was founded in 1941, and is situated in Drimmelen (Noord-Brabant).
Jarig Bakker, 2 Dec 2004

Amstel, Amsterdam

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Roei en Zeilvereniging "De Amstel", Amsterdam (Row- and Sailing club). A burgee bright-blue over white with in the center a dark blue diamond charged with a white anchor with in the center two white clubs. The Club does still exist according to
its website - the club building is for hire as a party-center (but on warm summer evenings one has to go inside by 22.00 p.m. as the neighbours will complain!). On that site is a flag, essentially the same but a bit more elaborated: a flag blue over white with in the center the club's emblem: a white anchor on two rowing oars in saltire..
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Amsterdam WV

Watersportvereniging Amsterdam, after image on this site: blue burgee with in the center, reaching fly and hoist, a red diamond, charged with a blue letter A. This club was founded 27 Jan 1918, and is situated at the entrance to the "Amsterdamsche Bosch", a large forest area where you least expect it.
Jarig Bakker, 2 Dec 2004

Argo, Wageningen

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Wageningsche Studenten Roei Vereniging "Argo", Wageningen (Gelderland). Flag: horizontal green - white - green, with at top hoist an ancient sail/rowing ship above something (perhaps the golden fleece, perhaps the name???), all white.
At its homepage is a nearly identical flag, with even unclearer device.
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

The "thingy" below the ship is indeed nothing else than a name-tag: a rectangle charged with the letters "ARGO".
Jeroen van Leeuwen, 21 Mar 2005