Dan Pienaar Military person

Major General Daniel Hermanus ("Dan") Pienaar (27 August 1893-19 December 1942) CB DSO & two bars was a South African World War II military commander.Pienaar joined the artillery branch of the Natal Police (NP) in 1911, and transferred to the Union Defence Forces (UDF) when they took over the NP in 1913. In World War I, he served as an artilleryman with the South African Overseas Expeditionary Force in German East Africa and Palestine.Between the two world wars, Pienaar held various staff and command posts. He commanded Orange Free State Command from 1935 to 1937.

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Dan Pienaar
Birth dateAugust 27, 1893
Birth place
Ladybrand
Date of deathDecember 19, 1942
Place of death
Kisumu , Kenya

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Military person

award
Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order
military operations
World War II
World War I
military command
1st Infantry Division
1st Infantry Brigade
service start1911
service end1942

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