Pieter Grobbelaar

Pieter Grobbelaar

General Pieter Grobbelaar DSO (1908-1988) was a South African military commander. He joined the South African Army as a part-time Citizen Force soldier in 1929 and became a full-time Permanent Force member in 1933. During World War II he commanded armoured units in East Africa, and was second in command of a motorised infantry brigade in Italy.

He served as Army Chief of Staff from 1953 to 1958, as Inspector-General from 1958 to 1959, as Deputy Commandant-General from 1959 to 1960, and as Commandant-General, i.e. head of the SA Defence Force, from 1961 to 1965.

ee also

* List of South African military chiefs
* South African Army


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