LONDON.- A vast collection of 30,000 toy soldiers accumulated by Dutch collector, Gijs Scholtens, is to be sold at Bonhams, Knowle, as part of its auction of Toys, Dolls and Soldiers on 5 April 2011. Echoing the historic journey of Stadtholder William III of Orange (later King William of England, married to Mary II of England), in which he landed on British soil in 1688 with Dutch troops, and quickly shifted to relying on the British Army, Scholtens arrived in Britain this year with his own extensive army, already comprising mainly British troops. Scholtens, a former lawyer, has been fascinated by anything army-related for his whole life. As a student he was a member of the University of Leiden’s Pro Patria ‘defensibility’ society; aged 58, he became Reserve Officer in the rank of Major in the Army, and later Chief; and in 2007 and 2008 he was sent to Afghanistan to establish a legal authority in Uruzgan. He sta