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South African Commanders in Chief
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Authors and Contributors this page: Christopher Buyers, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 August 2003. Corrected and updated 06.09.2005
 

Chronological List of

South African
ARMY COMMANDERS IN CHIEF
South Africa   
See also:
Introduction to Army Chiefs
Introduction to Field Marshals
Index of Royal Colonels
and in South Africa:
List of Defence Chiefs
List of Field Marshals
 

     Note: all ranks and post-nominals are final for the person's career and not necessarily applicable to his tenure as Commander-in-Chief.
 
 
     
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief:  
1899.10.09 Gen. Sir Redvers Henry Buller, VC, GCB, GCMG  
1899.12.17 F.M. Sir Frederick Sleigh (Roberts), 1st Earl Roberts, VC, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, VD  
1900.09.29 Gen. Horatio Herbert (Kitchener), 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE  
1902.06.20 Gen. Sir Neville Gerald Lyttelton, GCB, GCVO  
1904.03.19 Gen. Sir Henry John Thoroton Hildyard, GCB
1908.04.04 Gen. Paul Sanford (Methuen), 3rd Baron Methuen, GCB, GCMG, GCVO
Staff Officer for General Staff Duties:  
1912 Col. John Johnston Collyer, CB, CMG, DSO, CStJ, VD  
Chief Staff Officer of the General Staff:  
1915 Brig-Gen. John Johnston Collyer, CB, CMG, DSO, CStJ, VD  
Chief of the General Staff:  
1917.06.04 Maj-Gen. John Johnston Collyer, CB, CMG, DSO, CStJ, VD  
1920.09.21 Lt-Gen. Andries Jacob Eksteen Brink, CBE, DTD, DSO, KStJ  
1933.05.01 Gen. Sir Pierre Helperus Andries van Ryneveld, KBE, CB, DSO, MC  
1949.05.02 Lt-Gen. Leonard Beyers, CBE, DTD  
1950.03.16 Lt-Gen. Christiaan Ludolph de Wet Du Toit, DSO  
     
Chief of the Army Staff:  
1966.07.01 Gen. Charles Alan Fraser, SSA, SM  
1967.12.10 Lt-Gen. W P Louw  
1973.07.01 Gen. The Hon Magnus André de Merindol Malan, SSA, SD, SM  
1976.09.01 Gen. Constand Laubscher Viljoen, SSA, SM  
1980.10.07 Gen. Johannes Jacobus Geldenhuys, SSA, SD, SM  
1985.11.01 Gen. Andreas Jacobus Liebenberg, SSAS, SD, SOE  
1990.03 Gen. Georg Lodewyk Meiring, SSAS, SD, SM, MMM  
1993.11.01 Lt-Gen. Johannes Pretorius Lt-Gen. Reginald Otto, SD, SM, MMM  
1998.06 Lt-Gen. Gilbert Leboko Ramano, SSAS, SD, MMS, MMM, MMB