Pieter de Waal

Pieter de Waal

Brigadier Pieter de Waal CB CBE (1899-1977) was a South African military commander. He joined the Union Defence Forces as a coast gunner in 1922.

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 at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in England for the rest of World War II.

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 African Corps of Marines, which had been formed out of the coast and anti-aircraft artillery.

References

"Militaria" - Official Professional Journal of the SADF (Vol 12/2: 1982)

ee also

*List of South African military chiefs
*South African Navy


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