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MAJOR-GENERAL R.J. "BOBBY" PALMER CVO, KPM, DSO

Commissioner of the South African Police from 1945 to 1951

Major-General RJ Palmer
​Genl. Bobby Palmer was alombekend as die “smiling cop”. Ná die oorlog het baie nuwe probleme op die polisie gewag. Die mag moes uitgebrei word en werwing moes gedoen word om die talle probleme die hoof te bied. Kommunisme het gedurende die oorlog uitgebrei en genl. Palmer het die veiligheidsafdeling uitgebrei om dié euwel te bekamp.
  • 1911 en genl. Palmer is ‘n berede konstabel (trooper) in die “British South Africa Police” (Rhodesië.)
  • Gedurende 1913 sluit hy by die “Orange River Colony Police” aan. Hy word polisieman in die SAP en toe die oorlog uitbreek, dros hy om by die Britse gevegsmagte aan te sluit. Ná sy tweede probeerslag (as droster) is hy in Engeland waar hy homself as vlieënier in die “Royal Flying Corps” (RFC) bekwaam. Hy is die eerste Suid-Afrikaanse polisieman om die onderskeiding te behaal en in opdrag van die kommissaris dra hy vleuels op sy uniform.
  • In 1924 word hy as offisier aangestel en dien hy met onderskeiding in verskeie sleutelposte, onder andere as bevelvoerder van die kollege, bevelvoerder van die hondeskool en adjunk-kommissaris (afdelingskommissaris) van die Westelike Provinsie.
  • Die oorlog breek uit en hy word aangestel as luitenant-kolonel in die UVM en dien as bevelvoerder van 'n polisie-eenheid. Tydens die oorlog onderskei hy homself weer veral op die slagveld en word hy brigadier in die UVM. Hy verwerf die “Distinguished Service Order” en twee balkies.
Bron: Nongqai Vol 8 No 5 bl.. 18-19
PALMER, Major-General Robert John
Brigadier R.J. Palmer, D.S.O.
Brigadier R.J. Palmer, D.S.O.
Brigadier R.J. Palmer, D.S.O.
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