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Pieter de Waal (31 December 1899, ZeerustJune 1977, Wynberg) was a South African military commander. He joined the Union Defence Forces as a coastal gunner in 1922.


Military career

From 1934 to 1940, he was Director of Operations and Training (under various titles) at Defence Headquarters. He served as Deputy Chief of the General Staff from 1940 until 1944, when he was seconded to the staff of General Dwight Eisenhower as South African Liaison Officer to Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in England for the rest of
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. After the war, Brig de Waal served as Quartermaster-General from 1945 to 1951, and as Naval and Marine Chief of Staff from 1951 to 1952. As NMCS he was in command of both the South African Navy and the short-lived
South Africa Marine Corps South Africa currently does not have a Marines, marine corps, though in the past it did. It was originally set up as a sub-branch of the South African Navy during the apartheid era, with the primary purpose of protecting the country's harbours ( ...
. He served as Military & Naval Attaché to the US from 1953 to 1954


Awards and decorations


Companion of the Order of the Bath

On 1 January 1946, Brigadier de Waal was made a Companion of the
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire

On 1 January 1944, Brigadier de Waal was made a Commander of the
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. The Notice in the London Gazette reads as follows:


List

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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 ...
* South African Navy


References

, - {{DEFAULTSORT:de Waal, Pieter 1899 births 1977 deaths Afrikaner people South African people of Dutch descent Chiefs of the South African Navy South African Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Graduates of the Staff College, Camberley Military attachés