Decorations and Awards
He received the Star of South Africa Decoration on 13 May 1960 in recognition of his exceptionally meritorious services, as well as Order Of May To Naval Merit in the grade of “Grand Cross Admiral Guillermo Brown from Argentina and the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique of Portugal. He was the first recipient of the Southern Cross Decoration, which he received on his retirement as Chief of the SADF in 1976
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“Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)