The 4^th Supply and transport Company with the nickname “the dairy maids” was an volunteer unit raised in the autumn of 1945 and trained in Belgium after which it was put under command of 21^st Army Group caring the name Netherlands Generate Transport Company (Neth. G. T. Coy) supplying British troops.
On 30^th April 1946 they left for Dutch East India onboard Sibajak arriving in Batavia on 30^th May 1946. On arrival the 4^th Supply and transport Company was put under command of B Division although its trucks did not arrive from the Netherlands until the end of June 1946. During the 1^st Police Action the 4^th Supply and transport Company operated with the V Brigade. With which it continued to operate until 20^th March 1948 when the 4^th Supply and transport Company, minus one platoon which was transferred to Batavia, was transferred to Semarang and Salatiga and come under command of the Tijger Brigade.
On the outbreak of the 2^nd Police Action on 19^th December 1949 the 4^th Supply and Transport Company tranported the 1-15^th Infantry Regiment to Kalibanteng for its airlift to Magoewo the airfield of Djocjakarta. After which it mainly transported equipment and food until it left Dutch East India onboard Zuiderkruis on 2^nd July 1949 arriving in Rotterdam on 26^th July 1949.