Jacques Alfred Dextraze CC CMM CBE DSO & Bar CD (August 15, 1919 – May 9, 1993) was a Canadian military officer who rose through the ranks from private to general in his career and served as Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada from 1972–1977.

[1] He served in World War II in North West Europe where he was granted command of his regiment in action and was awarded two Distinguished Service Orders.

[1] In 1950 he was called back from a civilian career with the Singer sewing machine company to build, train and command the 2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment, leading it in the Korean War.

[5] Dextraze launched a small-scale operation during Pierre Mulele's Kwilu Province uprising of January 1964 in order to save at least some of the threatened aid workers and missionaries under attack from the jeunesse.

His son, Richard Paul Dextraze, was Killed In Action (KIA) in Vietnam[1] on April 23, 1969, where he fought as a Lance Corporal in the United States Marine Corps, and was a posthumous recipient of the Silver Star medal and the Purple Heart.