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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 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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
6th South African Infantry Brigade (Raised 17 June 1940 at Pietermaritzburg 1st Pretoria Highlanders (Until November 1940) 1st, 2nd South African Police; 2nd Transvaal Scottish (From 21 November 1940) 3rd South African Division (Raised 23 October 1940 at Pretoria) 6th Light Field Brigade, SAA; 8th, 9th, 10th Field Companies, SAEC
0–9. 1 South African Infantry Battalion; 1st SA Infantry Regiment; 2 South African Infantry Battalion; 2nd South African Infantry Regiment; 3rd South African Infantry Regiment
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 ...