Unit Name: | Regiment Highveld |
Dates: | 1960 |
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Type: | Infantry |
Role: | Light Infantry |
Size: | One Battalion |
Command Structure: | South African Infantry Corps Army Territorial Reserve |
Garrison: | Middelburg, Nelspruit |
Motto: | "Staan Ferm" (Stand Firm) |
Regiment Highveld was a motorised infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation. As a reserve unit, it had a status roughly equivalent to that of a present-day British Army Reserve or United States Army National Guard unit.
Regiment Highveld[1] was formed in Middelburg on 1 January 1960, it also stationed a rear HQ in the town of Nelspruit.
The Regiment originally wore the infantry bokkop but the lion rampant emblem was adopted by 1965.
Regiment Highveld was utilized in a motorized infantry role and deployed on internal security duties on a regular basis.
Regiment Highveld was disbanded in 1997.