Soldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
… to their everlasting credit.'(4) On 17 July 1917, King George V, in a speech to the SANLC in Abbeville, called them … of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. The 1st South African Division played a spearhead role. It had to breach the German … after the battle, the commander of the 1st South African Division, Major-General Daniel Hermanus Pienaar (popularly …