Military sa rifles title

Buy Military SA Mounted Rifles shoulder title - worn 1913-1922 - as per photo for R150.00

Buy Military SA Corps of Mil Police Shoulder Title - as per photo for R95.00

 SA Army WW1 Witwatersrand Rifles shoulder title with 2 lugs

  SA MOUNTED RIFLES Z TYPE SHOULDER TITLE WORN 1913-1922- 2 LUGS  

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Buy SA MOUNTED RIFLES Z TYPE SHOULDER TITLE WORN 1913-1922- 2 LUGS for R80.00

Buy SA MOUNTED RIFLES SHOULDER TITLE PAIR (ALL LUGS INTACT) for R120.00

Buy SA Corps of Military Police (SACMP) shoulder title (CO 1631) for R100.00

Buy SA Corps of Military Police (SACMP) shoulder title (CO 1631) for R75.00

 SA Army WW2 Witwatersrand Rifles shoulder title with 2 lugs

This auction is for the following three books: 1. South African military awards: 1912-1987  by S Monick; illustrations by C M Eloff; Publisher: South African National Museum of Military History 1988 (1st Edition) Publisher Johannesburg: South African National Museum of Military History. Soft cover, 58 pages. Signature of previous owner and year inscription inside front cover, ownership stamp on title page, clean inside, very good binding, very good condition. 2. A guide to South African orders, decorations, and medals and their ribbons, 1896-1985 by J P I Fforde; S Monick Publisher Johannesburg: South African National Museum of Military History, 1986 Soft cover, 40 pages. Signature of previous owner and year inscription inside front cover, ownership stamp on title page, foxing on title page and next four pages, clean inside, very good binding, very good condition. Some wear along spine on outer cover. Some postage stamps of medals affixed on pages. 3. Awards of the South African uniformed public services, 1922-1987: the South African Police, South African Railways Police, South African Prisons Service by S Monick. Publisher Johannesburg: South African National Museum of Military History, 1988 Soft cover, 87 pages. Signature of previous owner and year inscription inside front cover, ownership stamp on title page, clean inside, very good binding, very good condition.   Please judge from pictures:     Please note: Payment must be made within three days of auction close.    Please have a look at all my Items here!!  

    WWII SPECIAL SERVICE BATTALION TITLE BADGE The Special Service Battalion (SSB) is a South African military unit formed on 1 May 1933 under the patronage of Oswald Pirow, Minister of Defence. The object was to give training to youths, between the ages of 17 and 23, who, in the wake of the 1929 depression, could find no suitable employment on leaving school.   History Lt Col George E Brink was given the responsibility for establishing the battalion at Roberts Heights and was the first commanding officer. The SSB was established to save the youth from physical and moral degeneration caused by massive unemployment due to the Great Depression. The SSB was to teach the young men military discipline, fitness and various trades to enable them to be employed by the Department of Labour and Welfare. The SSB men received a salary of a shilling a day causing the SSB soon to be known as the "Bob a Day Battalion".  In 1934 detachments were also established for 100 trainees at Durban and 150 at Cape Town. Training included elementary military subjects and physical training. After a year of the young men usually found employment in government departments or with civilian employers. By 1936 the output of the SSB totalled about 2000 youths a year. In 1937 the South African Railways established at Roberts Heights a special school to prepare boys for the railways. In 1937 3788 youths passed through the ranks of the SSB. A total of 882 of them joined the Permanent Force.  With the expansion of the South African Air Force in 1937 the SSB provided 248 air apprentices for special training but, with the improvement in the economic situation, the waiting list to join the battalion had dwindled to almost nil.  With the outbreak of war in September 1939, members of the SSB were posted to units requiring immediate reinforcement to get on to a wartime basis. An example of this being the Coastal Artillery. In February 1940 a number of troops were transferred to the 1st and 2nd Field Force Battalions. These served with distinction in East Africa, Abyssinia and the Middle East as part of 1st South African Division.  SADF era 1 SSB Commemorative Letter In August 1941 all members of the SSB below the age of 18 were transferred to the Youth Training Brigade. The remainder formed an infantry battalion, which was converted to an armoured car commando in 1942.  In February 1943 the SSB, under Lt Col EG ('Papa') Brits, became part of the 11th SA Armoured Brigade. In March 1943 the Field Force Battalion was disbanded and other ranks and some of the officers were transferred to the SSB, thus providing a nucleus of battle-tested veterans.  The unit sailed for the Middle East with the 6th SA Armoured Division in April 1943. In 1944 the division crossed the Mediterranean Sea to take part in the Italian campaign. The regiment played a prominent part in numerous actions during the campaign.  In 1946, SSB was resuscitated as a Permanent Force unit and reorganised on a two-battalion basis with the 1st Battalion as an armoured unit and the 2nd Battalion infantry. The former became a training regiment in 1953 and the latter was renamed the 1 South African Infantry Battalion (1SAI) in 1951.   CONDITION:  Very Good. Lugs in tact. UNCLEANED. Sold as seen in the images. Images form part of the description.

UP FOR AUCTION IS A PRE 1994 SADF-UMVOTI MOUNTED RIFLES BERET. WITH BERET BADGE & EMBROIDED BALKY--SIZE 55. IN GOOD CONDITION-NO HOLES SHIPPING (SA) 49.00. HAPPY BIDDING! OR PICK UP AT MILITARY SHOP IN PRIMROSE-FISHERS HILL-THANK YOU.

UP FOR AUCTION IS A WITSWATERSRAND RIFLES KILMARNOCK COMPLETE WITH HACKLE,BADGE & LANYARD. PLEASE NOTE 1 SMALL HOLE ON TOP OF BERET. INSIDE LINER IS MISSING-OTHERWISE GOOD CONDITION. THESE WERE USED FROM 1964 ON WARDS OVERSEAS BIDDERS WELCOME BUT PLEASE NOTE I DO NOT ACCEPT PAY PAL-ONLY PAY THROUGH BOB. SHIPPING(SA) R69.00. HAPPY BIDDING!! OR PICK UP AT MILITARY SHOP IN PRIMROSE FISHERS HILL-PLEASE CHECK MY SITE FOR OTHER WAR MEMORABILIA-THANK YOU!  

As a schoolboy at the age of thirteen, Magnus Malan had already run away to join what was then the Union Defence Force. This was to no avail, of course, but ever since he was permitted to join the Physical Training Battalion in 1946, for a period of some 45 years, his career and life has been closely entwined with the South African Defence Force. Malan's military career took him to many places in Southern Africa: Robben Island, the former South West Africa, where the Territorial Force was charged with protecting the South African Mandate territory, to the Military Academy in Saldanha and the Castle in Cape Town. As Chief of the Army and later Chief of the Defence Force he was closely involved in South Africa's incursion into Angola in 1975 and 1976, and also in many cross-border operations in the years thereafter. Malan then entered politics, and will be particularly remembered as Minister of Defence during the troubled 1980s. Malan offers a brief account of the influence that political developments in Southern Africa since 1960 had on the structures and functions of the South African Defence Force; on the successes of Armscor, and on South Africa's nuclear arms capability. He also provides valuable context for a period of many political and military events; a period of immense importance to the present generation and their descendants, but which has become almost forgotten. The title pays tribute to all those who contributed to the successes of the South African Defence Force and Armscor in a critical era of our history. Hardcover, 509 pages.  Published 2006 General Magnus Andr de Merindol Malan SSA SD OMSG SM MP (30 January 1930 18 July 2011)  was the Minister of Defence in the cabinet of President P. W. Botha, Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF) and Chief of the South African Army. He died peacefully at home on Monday 18 July 2011