Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Keith_Coster> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 56 of
56
with 100 items per page.
- Keith_Coster abstract "Lieutenant General Keith Coster I.C.D., O.B.E (19 April 1920 - 5 June 2012) was a South African army officer who rose to command the Rhodesian Army from 1968 to 1972.Coster was born on 19 April 1920 in Eshowe, Kwa-Zulu-Natal, South AfricaHe was educated at Maritzburg College, in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. After his matriculation at the school in 1936, he enlisted in the Special Service Battalion of the Union Defence Force (UDF) (of South Africa), and was commissioned into the SA Air Force (SAAF) on 6 September 1939. While flying a Curtis Tomahawk with 5 Squadron SAAF, he was shot down over North Africa by ME 109 in 1942 and was a prisoner-of-war until May 1945.After the war, he transferred to the SA army, and during 1952 attended the Royal Army Staff College at Camberley in England.In 1955, he left the SA Permanent Force to join the Army of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland as a major. On the dissolution of the federation, he joined the Rhodesian Army, in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant general and was appointed as general officer commanding.He retired from that post in 1972 as a lieutenant-general, having commanded the Rhodesian Army from 1968 to 1972. In 1959, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), received the Independence Declaration (Rhodesia) in 1965 and was awarded a Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of South Africa in 1981.Keith married Molly Stanley in 1941, and two children, Steven and Judy, were born out of the marriage. After the death of his first wife, he married Millie Aherin in 1995.He died peacefully on 5 June 2012 in Somerset West, South Africa.".
- Keith_Coster birthDate "1920-04-19".
- Keith_Coster birthPlace South_Africa.
- Keith_Coster birthYear "1920".
- Keith_Coster deathDate "2012-06-05".
- Keith_Coster deathPlace South_Africa.
- Keith_Coster deathYear "2012".
- Keith_Coster wikiPageID "21565919".
- Keith_Coster wikiPageRevisionID "514272338".
- Keith_Coster dateOfBirth "1920-04-19".
- Keith_Coster dateOfDeath "2012-06-05".
- Keith_Coster hasPhotoCollection Keith_Coster.
- Keith_Coster name "Coster, Keith".
- Keith_Coster placeOfBirth "Eshowe, South Africa".
- Keith_Coster placeOfDeath "Somerset West, South Africa".
- Keith_Coster shortDescription "Rhodesian Army general".
- Keith_Coster description "Rhodesian Army general".
- Keith_Coster description "Rhodesian Army general".
- Keith_Coster subject Category:1920_births.
- Keith_Coster subject Category:2012_deaths.
- Keith_Coster subject Category:Alumni_of_Maritzburg_College.
- Keith_Coster type AlumniOfMaritzburgCollege.
- Keith_Coster type Alumnus109786338.
- Keith_Coster type CausalAgent100007347.
- Keith_Coster type Intellectual109621545.
- Keith_Coster type LivingPeople.
- Keith_Coster type LivingThing100004258.
- Keith_Coster type Object100002684.
- Keith_Coster type Organism100004475.
- Keith_Coster type Person100007846.
- Keith_Coster type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Keith_Coster type Scholar110557854.
- Keith_Coster type Whole100003553.
- Keith_Coster type YagoLegalActor.
- Keith_Coster type YagoLegalActorGeo.
- Keith_Coster type Agent.
- Keith_Coster type Person.
- Keith_Coster type Person.
- Keith_Coster type Q215627.
- Keith_Coster type Q5.
- Keith_Coster type Agent.
- Keith_Coster type NaturalPerson.
- Keith_Coster type Thing.
- Keith_Coster type Person.
- Keith_Coster comment "Lieutenant General Keith Coster I.C.D., O.B.E (19 April 1920 - 5 June 2012) was a South African army officer who rose to command the Rhodesian Army from 1968 to 1972.Coster was born on 19 April 1920 in Eshowe, Kwa-Zulu-Natal, South AfricaHe was educated at Maritzburg College, in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.".
- Keith_Coster label "Keith Coster".
- Keith_Coster sameAs m.05h1tml.
- Keith_Coster sameAs Q6384223.
- Keith_Coster sameAs Q6384223.
- Keith_Coster sameAs Keith_Coster.
- Keith_Coster wasDerivedFrom Keith_Coster?oldid=514272338.
- Keith_Coster givenName "Keith".
- Keith_Coster isPrimaryTopicOf Keith_Coster.
- Keith_Coster name "Coster, Keith".
- Keith_Coster name "Keith Coster".
- Keith_Coster surname "Coster".