Windmills around this low-lying coastal nation were set in a mourning position and church bells will toll just before the first military transport planes carrying the remains arrive from Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine.  The two planes took off from Kharkiv carrying 40 plain wooden coffins after a brief solemn ceremony. The remains of an unknown number of victims were transported in refrigerated rail carriages from the rebel-held part of Ukraine on Tuesday.  Read MorePutin shows the strain as MH17 outrage mounts  With 193 of the dead from the Netherlands, Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said almost every family in the country of 15 million knew someone who died or their relatives, contributing to a national mood of shock and grief.  "Think of all the people who were flying away on holiday, all the young people who had just finished their final school exams," said Jikkie van der Giessen from Amsterdam.  "They were looking fully toward the future and then you're shot down. Whether it was an accident or on purpose, the fact is it's horrible," she said.  While many of the passengers on the flight to Kuala Lumpur were tourists, at least six were AIDS experts on their way to a conference in Melbourne, Australia on the deadly disease.  Read MoreRussia threatens to ban Ukraine food imports  Bells will toll for 10 minutes and a trumpet salute will sound as the first coffins are unloaded before relatives of the victims and dignitaries including King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima and prime minister Rutte.  Representatives of the many countries whose citizens died in the crash will be present, including the governor-general of Australia, Peter Cosgrove.  Trains will come to a stop for a minute at 4 p.m. as the country observes a minute's silence, Dutch Railways said. No planes will take off or land at Schiphol Airport, from which the Malaysian Airlines flight departed, for 13 minutes around the time the bodies land.  A silent memorial rally was planned outside the royal palace in Amsterdam's Dam square on Wednesday evening.
Grief tinged with anger ahead of the arrival of the first bodies of victims from a Malaysian airliner downed over Ukraine last week.