| Unit Name: | Pretoria Highlanders Regiment |
| Dates: | 1939 to 4 June 2017 |
| Allegiance: | |
| Branch: | |
| Type: | Reserve Artillery |
| Size: | Battery |
| Command Structure: | South African Army Artillery Formation Army Conventional Reserve |
| Nickname: | Jacaranda Jocks |
| Disbanded: | 4 June 2017 |
| Commander1 Label: | Officer Commanding |
| Identification Symbol: | Bursting grenade with seven flames |
| Identification Symbol Label: | Collar Badge |
| Identification Symbol 2: | Oxford Blue |
| Identification Symbol 2 Label: | Beret Colour |
| Identification Symbol 3 Label: | Artillery Battery Emblems |
| Identification Symbol 4 Label: | Artillery Beret Bar circa 1992 |
The Pretoria Highlanders Regiment[1] was a regiment of the South African Army. As a reserve unit, it had a status roughly equivalent to that of a British Army Reserve or United States Army National Guard unit.
Though the regiment was disbanded, the associated pipe band continues to operate.
The regiment was founded by Peter Lawrence Goudie on the outbreak of World War II in 1939. He recruited 1,400 men within six weeks and also raised the funds to equip them with Highland uniforms.
During World War II the regiment, as part of 7 South African Infantry Brigade, took part in "Operation Rose", the invasion of Madagascar by South African forces in June 1942. As far as is known, this is the first (and only) amphibious operation in which South African troops ever participated.
In 1946, the PH were converted to artillery and renamed 1 Anti-Tank Regiment (PH). When the Army was reorganised in 1960, for internal security duties, the regiment was converted to armour and reverted to its original name of Pretoria Highlanders.
The regiment was assigned to the 7th Division's 73 Motorised Brigade.
An early band was established around the time of the regiment's formation. The post-war Pretoria Highlanders Pipes and Drums was established in 1979. It was disbanded in 2005, by which time it received no official defence force support. The band was re-established and held its first gathering on 13 April 2013.[2]
South Africa