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Pretoria Regiment

Regiment

UDF 61 records in this database

Served in German South-West Africa with Beves’s 1st Infantry Brigade (Whittall). Source: Whittall, With Botha and Smuts in Africa (1917/2009).

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Formation	Type	Relationship	Dates
81 Armoured Brigade	Brigade	organic
army-oob:g11
German South West Africa Campaign 1915 › Units	Category	organic
army-oob:g15
7th South African Infantry Brigade	Brigade	organic	1940-05-13 – 1940-12-31
South African Army order of battle 1940 (expeditionary / mobilisation brigades).

Dates	Force	Role	Status
1913-07-01	UDF	Infantry, later Armour	Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Pretoria Regiment, formed 1 July 1913 as an Active Citizen Force infantry battalion. Converted to armour 1943 (Italian Campaign, RAC depots in Egypt). Renamed Pretoria Armour Regiment 2019; one of 52 Reserve Force units renamed that year. Source

61 on the roll across 2 Force tags — this organisation name is shared by more than one defence force / era.

#	Last Name	First Name	Initials	Rank	Force	Regiment	Corps	Unit	Date of Death
26907	Van Niekerk	Kenneth Henri Hauptfleisch	K H H	Captain	UDF	Pretoria Regiment	South African Infantry Corps		1946-09-05
27004	Van Rooyen	William John	W J	Lance Corporal	UDF	Pretoria Regiment	South African Infantry Corps		1944-06-15
27077	Van Vuuren	Robert Johannes	R J	Trooper	UDF	Pretoria Regiment	South African Infantry Corps		1944-08-02
27211	Veall	Denys Gurney	D G	Trooper	UDF	Pretoria Regiment	South African Infantry Corps		1944-08-02
27263	Venter	Willem Daniel Francois	W D F	Trooper	UDF	Pretoria Regiment	South African Infantry Corps		1944-06-20
27368	Viljoen	Matthys Laubscher	M L	Sergeant	UDF	Pretoria Regiment	South African Infantry Corps		1944-06-15
27591	Walker	John	J	Lieutenant	UDF	Pretoria Regiment	South African Infantry Corps	"A" Squadron	1944-07-05
27960	Webster	Harold Lorimer	H L	Corporal	UDF	Pretoria Regiment	South African Infantry Corps		1944-06-15
28291	Wiehahn	George Jacobus Rudolph	G J R	Trooper	UDF	Pretoria Regiment	South African Infantry Corps		1944-07-02
28321	Wiley	Peter Alfred Hurrel	P A H	Corporal	UDF	Pretoria Regiment	South African Infantry Corps		1944-06-26
28842	Woolmore	Denis Bertrand	D B	Trooper	UDF	Pretoria Regiment	South African Infantry Corps		1944-06-15