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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.
During the East African campaign (World War I), there was strong South African participation and leadership. SA Field Artillery, the 1st and 2nd SA Mounted Brigades, the 2nd and 3rd SA Infantry Brigades, and the Cape Corps fought in British operations against German forces in German East Africa (now Tanzania) from January 1916 until the war in Africa ended on 25 November 1918.
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)
The 3rd Infantry Division as a whole did not go into combat, but its 7th Motorized brigade group participated in the 1942 Invasion of Madagascar. The division organised and trained the South African home defence forces, performed garrison duties and trained and supplied replacements for the 1st and 2nd Divisions deployed to East Africa and ...
Light Infantry – 1 battalion; Parachute Infantry – 1 battalion; Air Assault Infantry – 1 battalion; Seaborne Infantry – 1 battalion; Basic Training – 1 battalion; The Oudtshoorn army base houses the South African Infantry School. The infantry corps contains a total of 26 reserve battalions in the following roles: Mechanised Infantry ...
The 3rd South African Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade of the army of the Union of South Africa during World War II. The Brigade formed part of the South African 1st Infantry Division and was formed on 13 August 1940. It served in the Western Desert and was disbanded on 1 January 1943.
Under the Union Defence Force, South Africa was originally divided into 9 military districts. By the 1930s this area became Cape Command. [2] Cape Command, (with its headquarters at the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, included 3rd Infantry Brigade, 8th Infantry Brigade (Oudtshoorn), the Coast Artillery Brigade (two heavy batteries, two medium batteries, and the Cape Field Artillery), and a ...