Jan Smuts

Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM, CH, ED, KC, FRS, PC (May 24, 1870 – September 11, 1950) is a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher.

In addition to holding various cabinet posts, he serves as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948.

He serves in the First World War and as a British field marshal in the Second World War.

He leads commandos in the Second Boer War for the Transvaal.

During the First World War, he leads the armies of South Africa against Germany, capturing German South-West Africa and commanding the British Army in East Africa.

From 1917 to 1919, he is also one of five members of the British War Cabinet.

He becomes a field marshal in the British Army in 1941, and serves in the Imperial War Cabinet under Winston Churchill.

He is the only person to sign each of the peace treaties ending the First and Second World Wars.

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