Sa army permanent force service

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 SA Permanent Force Band plaque awarded to Major JJ Van Staden for service 1971-1993

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South African Permanent Force Award - SILVER Date: Circa 1950  South African Permanent Force (S.A.P.F.); Suid-Afrikaanse Staande Mag (S.A.S.M.) Obverse: Within a protea wreath, a crown (top for navy), eagle (middle for air force) and cannon (bottom for army). A ribbon at the top: "S.A.S.M. (left) S.A.P.F (right)" and at the bottom motto: "RECTE FACIENDO". Reverse: Blank. Silver medal stamped with SA Mint silver mark. Reference: Laidlaw 0264 

  2x SA Army Miniature Medals 1 Permanent Force Good Service And 2 Defense Force Good Service 

    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.

1990 first edition very large hardcover with dust jacket and 242 pages in very neat condition.  R60 postage in SA. Includes Defence Force, SA army, air force, navy, medical service, special forces, Armscor, insurgency and counterinsurgency in South West Africa, intervention in Angola, blunting the "spear of the nation".

1990 first edition very large hardcover with dust jacket and 242 pages in very neat condition.  R65 postage in SA. Includes Defence Force, SA army, air force, navy, medical service, special forces, Armscor, insurgency and counterinsurgency in South West Africa, intervention in Angola, blunting the "spear of the nation".

1990 first edition very large hardcover with dust jacket and 242 pages in very neat condition.  R100 postage in SA. Includes Defence Force, SA army, air force, navy, medical service, special forces, Armscor, insurgency and counterinsurgency in South West Africa, intervention in Angola, blunting the "spear of the nation".

 BATTLE SCARRED Hidden Costs of the Border War  ANTHONY FEINSTEIN ; Softcover;  Published by Tafelberg ; First Edition First Impression 2011; ISBN 978 0 624 05374 3 ; No. of Pages; 217; From Goodreads  ; A young doctor is forced to face the Border War when he can no longer escape the call-up. With only a few weeks' training in this field, Anthony Feinstein is thrust into the army's psychiatric unit. Battle scarred is his revealing account of his experiences treating bossies soldiers and all manner of war -induced psychosis in a largely hostile environment. He starts out at 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria where his first patients are talking to the stars or claiming to be Jesus. Next, he is dispatched to Oshakati, home to the largest military base in the war zone, to screen troops for post-traumatic stress disorder. He steps into a world of alcoholism, insomnia, family violence and venereal disease. The consequences of war and the idiosyncrasies of army life present themselves in strange ailments. Chilling stories are told not only by the conscripts, but also by the wives of the permanent force soldiers who live on the base. During a stint at an outpost manned by Koevoet, Feinstein experiences the soldiers' shocking cruelty – and what it does to their psyche. This honest personal account sheds light on the widespread but seldom talked about fall-out from the Border War. It demands to be read, not only by the thousands of ex-soldiers still carrying the invisible scars, but by all South Africans. Very very good condition  no damage, good strong binding, no tears, no writing added , very clean  For POSTAGE (within SA)  PREFERABLY via POSTNET  to POSTNET  for a parcel of up to 5kg  (addit books may be included - up to 5kg) then please ADD R100.00 - add under option 2. Also via PAXI  which is via the Pep Stores branch network  (delivery around 9 days) Please ADD R55.00  under Option 1 and use the " Notes " to note via Pep Stores. If via SAPO  add under option 1  then please ADD R55.00; Collection or drop off can be arranged for Pietermaritzburg / Hilton or Howick. Buyers from outside of SA can contact me for a postal quote. army military medic military doctor border war soldiers national service border war  Oshakati south west Africa namibia  south africans at war   

Large hardcover coffee-table book, copy number 1114, 774 pages, profusely illustrated, as new   The Fourth Dimension – the untold story of military health in South Africa is a magisterial study of the subject just published by the South African Military Health Service. A weighty tome of just less than 800 pages, it is the most comprehensive study of military health ever attempted in South Africa. As such it records matters military medical reaching back to the turn of the 20th Century, with a look at the health support available to forces then engaged on both sides of the Anglo Boer War. Detailed and richly illustrated with what must be very rare photographs – the reviewer confesses to not having seen most – the story moves via the World Wars and Korea to the modern era. Captured also is the post-war growth of the health component of the SA Defence Force from a branch of the SA Army – the South African Medical Corps – to a fully fledged fourth service and its role in the Namibian-Angolan border war of 1966-1989. A full section – with reminiscences – are included regarding the medical services of the Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei medical services before their integration into the South African National Defence Force in April 1994. Given extensive treatment is the health services of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress of Azania while in exile. Again, this is unique, readable material not published before. Also recorded for the first time is the struggle against apartheid in the health environment inside South Africa from the 1960s to 1994 – the medical side of the mass democratic movement. Also covered is white resistance to conscription (the End Conscription Campaign), the United Democratic Front and state reaction.  The last three chapters deal with the integration of various antagonistic factions into a new SANDF - and for health professionals, a new SA Medical Service, later renamed the SAMHS; the deployment of this new service onto the regional and international stage; and finally a bold look into the future.  Military health has here been given a comprehensive, fair and balanced treatment with substantial volumes of new information added to the narrative. “The Fourth Dimension – the untold story of military health in South Africa” sets a high standard and one hopes the other services and divisions of the SANDF, if not the organisation itself, will follow suit.  The Fourth Dimension – the untold story of military health in South Africa Col Ricky Naidoo (Editor-in-Chief) South African Military Health Service Department of Defence Pretoria

SPRINGBOK RECORD Compiled and Edited by HARRY KLEIN; Hardcover; Published by the South African Legion of the British Empire Sevice League 1946 ; No. of Pages; 302   plus addit. 2 pages of " Sponsors ".  Commemorates the service in World War II; Includes an insert a fold out 2 page  showing the   RIBBONS OF BRITISH ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND SERVICE MEDALS. " The story of the men who bore the " Orange Flash" of liberty on the battlefronts of the war against Nazi-Fascist tyranny . It soared in the skies with the gallant airmen of the S A A F ;  it rolled with the seamen of the little ships  of the S A N F  in the troughs of ocean battlegrounds. " Condition; Very good; The cover is pulling away from the book however the binding is still " good "  (Please see the second last photograph). No tears ; no browning; Pages crisp and sharp and clean. One name written neatly inside the front cover. Please see all the photographs. POSTAGE  - within SA) Preferably via POSTNET  to Postnet  for a parcel of up to 5kg (addit. books may be included - up to 5kg) Or via PAXI /Pep Stores  to your closest Pep Store ;  delivery around 9 days; add R55.00 under Option 1;  Please add Pep Stores to the Notes. Or via SA PO (  delays may occur)   with tracking no. then please add R60.00 Buyers from outside of SA  may contact me for a postal quote. Below ; 2 pages of SPONSORS Second World WAR World War 2 World War 11  South African involvement; participation in; South African Forces Air Force Airforce Navy  Orange Flash  General Smuts North Africa  Dessert war military army South african Anti aircraft Regiment  Desert campaigns  El Alamein Brigadier  B F Armstrong Afrika Korps  6th S A Division South Africa'c V C s  Royal Natal Carineers  Jelib Abyssinia    

 BORDER-LINE INSANITY A National Serviceman's Story INCLUDES SADF ROLL OF HONOUR AND ROLL OF HONORIS CRUX AWARDS; TIM RANSDEN  Softcover Galago  First Edition 2009    (  Roll of Honour - Those killed in Active Service split between the South African Army 1962 - 1994 ; The South African Navy 1966 - 1994 ; The South African Air Force 1962 - 1994  and the South African Medical Service 1981 - 1994 )  copyright Peter Stiff.   ISBN 978 1 919854 24 3; No. of Pages; 352  Very good condition, tightly bound, no tears,  A stamp and old price written on inside of front cover. Note; Some of the cover corners have been slightly bumped.. For postage via SA PO  and within SA  please add R55.00 alternatively via POSTNET to Postnet for a parcel of up to 5kg then please add R105.00 Buyers from outside of SA can contact me for a postal quote.     medals   

Signed copy; gift inscribed. Small soft cover. 80 pages. Good condition. The cover has slight folds. Under 1kg. Although shortsighted rather deaf and born with a deformed foot this somehow soldier” was recruited by General George Brink for the Union Defence Force and served as an intelligence staff officer under General Manie Botha. The chapters cover: The Mounted Commando Division; the SA Tank Corps armoured cars; secondment to the British Army for military government duties; training at the Civil Affairs Staff College in England; posting to Algeria for service in Italy; the Garigliano Front and Anzio; posting to the US Army for service in France; Normandy and Orleans; Belgium and Holland; the first British military government to operate in Germany.