title: Pieter le Grange
text: # Pieter le Grange
  
  Lieutenant General Pieter Andries Le Grange SSA SM (born 15 September 1916) was a South African Air Force officer, who served as Chief of Staff Personnel from 1974 to 1977.
  
  ## Air Force career
  
  Le Grange joined the South African Air Defence Force in 1937, after a short stint in the Special Service Battalion, and participated in the Second World War by serving as Adjutant 2 Squadron in Italy and in Sicily. Adjutant 2 Squadron in the Korean War. In 1974, he acted as Director General Personnel. Chief of Staff Personnel from 1 May 1974–30 Sep 1977 on which date he retired.
  
  ## Awards and decorations
  
  * Star of South Africa (Gold) (SSAG)
  * Southern Cross Medal (1952) (SM)
  * Korea Medal (South Africa)
  * Union Medal
  * 1939–45 Star
  * Africa Star
  * War Medal 1939–1945
  * Africa Service Medal (WWII)
  * Bronze Star Medal
  * United Nations Service Medal (Korea)
  * Korean War Service Medal
  * Order of Military Merit (무공훈장) (2nd Class - Eulji Cordon (을지))
  