Lieutenant-General Nicolaas Nieuwoudt
MBChB (19291989
) was a
South African military commander. A medical doctor, he joined the
South African Air Force
"Through hardships to the stars"
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's medical branch in 1960, after five years private practise.
He commanded the
South African Medical Service
The South African Medical Service (SAMS) was a branch of the South African Defence Force (SADF). In 1994 when the SADF was merged with various other military and armed resistance forces as part of the post-apartheid reforms the SAMS became the Sou ...
, as Surgeon-General, from 1977 to 1988. He also commanded the secretive South African chemical and biological weapons program, known as
Project Coast
Project Coast was a 1980s top-secret chemical and biological weapons (CBW) program instituted by the apartheid-era government of South Africa. Project Coast was the successor to a limited postwar CBW program, which mainly produced the lethal agen ...
from 1981 to 1988.
Education
He obtained a medical degree from the
University of Pretoria
The University of Pretoria ( af, Universiteit van Pretoria, nso, Yunibesithi ya Pretoria) is a multi-campus public university, public research university in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa. The university was ...
Honours and awards
He was awarded the following medals and decorations:
* 1985
* 1980
* 1964
* 1984
* 1979
* 1980
The Order of Military Merit, degree 'Grand Officer'
Paraguay
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See also
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List of South African military chiefs
This article lists the South African military chiefs. From 1958 until the first democratic general election in 1994, the present-day South African National Defence Force was known as the South African Defence Force. From 1912 to 1958, the mili ...
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South African Medical Service
The South African Medical Service (SAMS) was a branch of the South African Defence Force (SADF). In 1994 when the SADF was merged with various other military and armed resistance forces as part of the post-apartheid reforms the SAMS became the Sou ...
References
''Militaria'' - Official Professional Journal of the SADF (Vol 12/2: 1982)
1929 births
1989 deaths
Afrikaner people
South African military personnel of the Border War
Recipient of the Order of the Cloud and Banner
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