SA Artillery Volunteers...

[Milmed]

Simon,

The citizen force units (like CFA, CGA, NFA and THA) were still around during this period, but they all had there own badges. Also pre 1922 were the 3 permanent force batteries of the SA Mounted Rifles. They wore the SAMR cap badge with artillery grenades on the collars.

Steven

[Milmed]

Hi Arthur,
The amalgamation of all the artillery units in a SA Artillery was in 1934 if memory serves. I think you have it down as 1924...

Regards
Steven

[Arthur R]

Hi Steven

Quite correct. Thanks for pointing out the typo. I've corrected it.

[Brian Conyngham]

Originally Posted by Arthur R

This is my understanding of the situation too, give or take a year.

According to my notes :

1915-19 : SA Field Artillery (5 x batteries) as a war service unit

1922 : SAMR artillery batteries detached from their parent regiments and renamed 1st, 2nd and 3rd Permanent Batteries SAMR.

1923 : Permanent Batteries renamed 'SA Field Artillery' when the Permanent Force was reorganised into branches.

1934 : SAFA amalgamated with SA Permanent Garrison Artillery, the ACF field artillery branch and the SA Garrison Artillery to form the 'SA Artillery'.

Just my 5 cents worth... I have always thought that this badge was WW1 and worn in Palestine, everyone forgets that the SAFA served there with 2 x batteries being A and B Batteries SAFA. I will try and find a picture I have somewhere showing this badge being worn by a chap who served there. Apologies if I cannot find it as I had a hard drive crash 3 months back and have lost huge amounts of info and pictures. A sad day as I had not backed up up much of it! Lesson learnt the hard way.

Brian

[manchesters]

Brian,

Stephen agrees with you in post #11.

regards