Lieutenant General George Edwin Brink, CB, CBE, DSO (27 September 1889 – 30 April 1971)[2] was a South African military commander.
[3] During the Second Boer War, he was interned in the Vredefort Road concentration camp for thirteen months.
[3][2] Prior to his military career, he worked for the Free State Education Department in 1908, as private secretary to the Commissioner of Police in 1909 and from 1910, at the Voorspoed Diamond Company.
[7] From September 1944 to 31 March 1948, Brink was in charge of demobilisation of South African forces.
[3] Brink unsuccessfully stood as a candidate in the 1953 South African general election for the Pretoria City constituency for the United Party.