Andries Brink

Andries Jacob Eksteen Brink CBE DTD DSO
Born	(1877-07-21)21 July 1877 Somerset West
Died	Pretoria
Allegiance	South Africa
Service/branch	South African Army
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands held	Chief of the Union Defense Forces
Battles/wars	World War I
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) Dekoratie voor Trouwe Dienst (DTD) Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

Andries Jacob Brink CBE DTD DSO (1877 – 1947) was a South African military commander and Lieutenant-General. An Afrikaner veteran of the Anglo-Boer War, he joined the Union Defence Forces as a staff officer in 1912 and served in World War I. He was Chief of the General Staff from 1920 to 1933, initially in command only of Defence HQ but, from 1922, of the whole UDF. He was also Secretary for Defence, i.e. head of the civil service Department of Defence, from 1922 to 1937. From 1937 to 1946 he was Commandant-in-Chief of the Burger Commandos, a home defence organisation.

Awards and Decorations

On 1 January 1944, Lieutenant-General Brink was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. The Notice in the London Gazette reads as follows:

The KING has been graciously pleased, on the advice of His Majesty's Ministers for the Union of South Africa, to give orders for the

following appointments to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
To be Additional Commanders of the Military Division of the said Most Excellent Order:

Lieutenant-General Andries Jacob Brink, D.T.D., D.S.O., South African Staff Corps (V)

• Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

• Dekoratie voor Trouwe Dienst (DTD)

• Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

See also

• List of South African military chiefs
• South African National Defence Force

External links

• Generals.dk
• The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 36311. p. 57. 31 December 1943. Retrieved 4 January 2015.

Military offices
New title Post established	Chief of the General Staff of the Union Defence Force 1922 – 1933	Succeeded by Sir Pierre van Ryneveld