The 2-7^th Infantry Regiment was raised on 3^rd October 1945 in Amsterdam and was made up from members of the Interior Army in the area of Amsterdam and Gooistreek. On 16^th February 1946 the 2-7^th Infantry Regiment left for England were it got the necessary equipment in Wokingham before leaving for Dutch East India on 25^th March 1946 onboard “Boissevain”. Since admiral Lord Louis Mounbatten the Commander South East Asia had lifted the band on Dutch troops to land on Java ands Sumatra Like so many other Dutch battalions the 2-7^th Infantry Regiment was saved from Malacca and arrived in semarang on 21^st April 1946.
In Semarang it took over the positions along the Eastern Banjir Kanaal from 1^st Regiment Stoottroepen. Beside this it was given the task to secure the harbour area. Beside keeping a company in reserve. It did not take long before the 2-7^th Infantry Regiment was put into action participating in different operations. During one of them (operation “Grotesk”) on 31^st July 1946 the battalion commander got badly wounded.
At the start of the 1^st Police Action on 21^st July 1947 the 2-7^th Infantry Regiment moved forward through difficult terrain (because of heavy rain) towards Oengaran securing the flank for the main force of the Tijger Brigade. And after a difficult advance the 2-7^th Infantry Regiment reached Oengaran in the evening. A few days later the 2-7^th Regiment Infanterie took over the seizing of Ambarawa and its surroundings from 1^st Regiment Stoottroeoen. And on 4^th August 1947 the last day of the 1^st Police Action the 2-7^th Infantry Regiment seized Bandoengan, Soemoewono and Bandjoe Biroe.
After the 1^st Police Action the 2-7^th Infantry Regiment got the task to patrol around Ambarawa. And on 15^th August 1947 the 2-7^th Infantry Regiment participated in the first big clearing operation together with 1^st Regiment Stoottroepen and the sister battalion 3-7^th Infantry Regiment in the surrounding of Oengaran and Soemoewono. That it was a necessary operation could be seen by the fact that the positions around Bandoengan and Soemoewono come under fire on a daily.
In the end of 1947 the 2-7^th Infantry Regiment took over the positions of 1^st Regiment Stoottroepen when they returned home to the Netherlands. On 19^th July 1948 the 2-7^th Infantry Regiment was relieved by the 5^th Regiment Stoottroepen. And on 23^rd July 1948 it left Dutch East India onboard “Johan van Oldebarneveldt” as the last volunteer unit in the Tijger Brigade to return to the Netherlands arriving on 21^st August 1948.