Honorific Prefix: | Colonel |
Maarten Schalekamp | |
Birth Date: | 15 April 1954 |
Birth Place: | Delmas |
Serviceyears: | 19721998 |
Rank: | Colonel |
Unit: | 4 Artillery Regiment |
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Battles: | South African Border War |
Col Maarten Schalekamp was an officer in the South African Army from the artillery.
He joined the South African Defence Force in 1973 and graduated from the South African Military Academy in 1976 with a Bachelor's degree awarded by Stellenbosch University. He saw action during the Border War in the Angolan theatre of operations with 61 Mechanised Battalion Group, 14 Field Regiment and 4 Artillery Regiment. He served as at 4 Artillery Regiment, at the School of Artillery, OC School of Artillery, OC HQ Group 30 from 1995 to 1996and finally the last from 19961998.[1] He retired from the SANDF in 1998.