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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.
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 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.
2nd South African Infantry Brigade (Raised 13 May 1940 at Premier Mine) 1st, 2nd Field Force Battalions; 1st Natal Mounted Rifles; 5th South African Infantry Brigade (Raised 16 June 1940 at Barberton) 3rd Transvaal Scottish; 2nd Regiment Botha; 1st South African Irish Regiment; 2nd South African Division (Raised 23 October 1940)
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 South African Infantry Battalion; 21 South African Infantry ...
3 South African Infantry Battalion; 4 South African Infantry Battalion; 5 South African Infantry Battalion; 6 South African Infantry Battalion; 7 South African Infantry Battalion; 8 South African Infantry Battalion; 10 South African Infantry Battalion; 11 SAI; 12 South African Infantry Battalion; 14 South African Infantry Battalion; 15 South ...
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 later to the Western Desert. [1]: 100 The division was based in Pretoria until 1942, whereafter the division then moved to Ermelo in the Eastern ...