Lt Colonel PS Joubert “Joubie”
Pierre Simmond Joubert
- Rank
- Lt Colonel
- Honours
- DSO AFC
- Squadron
- No 271 Squadron
- Born
- 1895
- Fate
- Did not survive the war, 16 August 1945
- In the book
- Pages 89, 90
From the book
More than a “Few” South Africans
Lionel Frederick William Cohen arrived in South Africa before Pierre Simmond Joubert was born. The apparently rebellious 16-year-old was born in Newcastle on Tyne in 1875 had been sent out to South Africa by his parents to work for his uncle Harry Freeman Cohen, founder of the “Rand Daily Mail”. Eighteen -year-old Trooper Cohen participated in the Matabeleland campaign, fought in the Anglo- Boer War, inherited the “Rand Daily Mail” which he sold, made, and lost money.
SAAF Airmen in RAF Squadrons
Lt Colonel Pierre Simmond Joubert, the oldest SAAF pilot to fly operationally was almost fifty years old when the award of his “Distinguished Service Order” was announced. Major NF Harrison, the only other pilot in that group to receive that award was half his age!
SAAF Airmen in RAF Squadrons
Major PJ Hayden Thomas and Lt Colonel PS Joubert were awarded the “Air Force Cross” in 1944. Thomas lost his life in a flying accident 10 days after the “London Gazette” announcement while Joubert died after an unfortunate accident in August 1945.