Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
0–9. 1 Locating Regiment; 1 Medical Battalion Group; 1 Parachute Battalion; 1 Reconnaissance Commando (South Africa) 1 South African Infantry Battalion; 1 SWA Specialist Unit; 2 Locating Regiment; 2 Reconnaissance Commando (South Africa) 2 South African Infantry Battalion; 3 Parachute Battalion; 3 Reconnaissance Commando (South Africa)
3 SA Infantry Battalion moved to Potchefstroom on 5 December 1968 with Commandant B.A. Ferreira as the new Commanding Officer. 3 SAI was given operational status, an additional responsibility. Two infantry Battalions were organised under the command of one Commanding Officer. During 1970, 3 SA Infantry Battalion was transformed into a force-in ...
After their deployment in Egypt, the 3rd Regiment was deployed to France where it helped capture the village of Longueval and was deployed in the adjacent Delville Wood on 15 July 1916. The regiment then served with the Brigade at Arras during April 1917 and was part of the offensive at Ypres and Passchendale in September 1917.
The first South African Special Forces unit, 1 Reconnaissance Commando, was established in the town of Oudtshoorn, Cape Province on 1 October 1972. On 1 January 1975, this unit was relocated to Durban, Natal, [8] where it continued its activities as the airborne specialist unit of the special forces.
In 2000 the Corps became known as the South African Army Infantry Formation. [3] The first female battalion commander appears to have been appointed in 2001. [7] The specialised horse/motorcycle/dog-using battalion, 12 South African Infantry Battalion, was disbanded in April 2005. [8]
4 South African Infantry Battalion; 4th SA Infantry Regiment; 5 South African Infantry Battalion; 6 South African Infantry Battalion; 7 South African Infantry Battalion; 8 South African Infantry Battalion; 9 South African Infantry Battalion; 10 South African Infantry Battalion; 11 Commando (South African) 14 South African Infantry Battalion; 15 ...
1. Regiment Oos- (East) Rand is an Armoured Infantry Regiment formed in 1960 during what became known as Stage 2 of the Reorganization of the South Africa Army. The April 1960 Government Gazette declared that Regiment Oos-Rand was activated on 1 January 1960 as a Citizen Force Unit. 2. At that time on the East Rand there existed the following ...
Tshwane Regiment is an infantry regiment of the South African Army. As a reserve unit, it has a status roughly equivalent to that of a British Army Reserve or United States Army National Guard unit.