Hendrik Mentz

Hendrik Mentz
Minister of Defence
In office 19 March 1920 – 29 June 1924
Prime Minister	Jan Smuts
Preceded by	Jan Smuts
Succeeded by	Frederic Creswell
Personal details
Born	August 8, 1877 Wittenbor, Orange Free State
Died	June 3, 1938 (aged 60)[1]
Nationality	South African
Spouse(s)	Gerty Roux - Died very young in the 1918 influenza epidemic. Later Remarried [2]
Children	Susie, Nell, Hennie, Dawie. Dawie was only 2years old when his Mom died.
Parents	Father: David Jacobus Mother: Johanna (nee) Duplooy
He served in the Second Boer War(1899-1901)
He served in the First World War (1914-1918)Under General Jan Smuts.[3]

Hendrik Mentz DTD (1877–1938)^[4] was a South African Party politician and South African Minister of Defence from 19 March 1920 to 29 June 1924.^[5]

He served in the Second Boer War.^[5] He served in the First World War. The Strike Craft SAS Hendrik Mentz of the South African Navy was named after him.^[6]

References

1. Uys, Ian (1992). South African Military Who's Who 1452-1992. Fortress Publishers. p. 153. ISBN 0-9583173-3-X.
2. Mentz Family descendants
3. Mentz Family Decendants
4. Rosenthal, Eric (ed) (1966). South African Dictionary of National Biography. Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. pp. 247–248.
5. C.J. Nöthling, E.M. Meyers (1982). "Leaders through the years (1912-1982)". Scientaria Militaria 12 (2): 92.
6. Wessels, Andre. "The South African Navy during the years of conflict in Southern Africa 1966-1989" (PDF). Retrieved August 14, 2014.