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created 1 May 2004. Corrected and updated
21.06.2004
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Note:This
is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental
page for full lineage and other information.
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Colour Key
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| 1855 | Frontier
Armed and Mounted Police raised to police Eastern Province of Cape |
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| 1855 | Cape Colony | ||
| 1857 | Tambookie | ||
| 1858 | Gcaleka | ||
| 1857 | Cape Colony | ||
| 1869 | Koranna | ||
| 1869 | Cape Colony | ||
| 1873 | Langalibalele | ||
| 1873 | Cape Colony | ||
| 1877 | Kaffir war | ||
| 1878.08.01 | Cape Mounted Riflemen | ||
| 1878 | Cape Colony | ||
| 1879 | Zululand | ||
| 1879 | Moirosi war | ||
| 1880 | Basutoland | ||
| 1880 | Transkei | ||
| 1881 | Cape Colony | ||
| 1896 | Bechuanaland | ||
| 1897 | Cape Colony | ||
| 1899 | South Africa | Colonial Div | |
| 1902 | Cape Colony | ||
| 1904.10.10 | Standard presented by Princess Christian at Cape Town (laid 1913 up in Holy Trinity Church, King Williams Town; moved to Anglican Cathedral, Cape Town) | ||
| 1913.04.01 | 1st Regiment South African Mounted Rifles | ||
| 1913 | South Africa: Cape | ||
| 1914 | South West Africa | ||
| 1914.09.26 | surrendered to the Germans at Sandfontein; freed later | ||
| 1916 | South West Africa: Ovamboland | ||
| 1915 | South Africa: Cape | ||
| 1922 | Rand revolt | ||
| 1922 | South Africa: Cape | ||
| 1926.04.01 | disbanded | ||
