Regiment de la Rey, established 1934 as one of the new Afrikaans-language Citizen Force units of the Union Defence Force. Renamed General de la Rey Regiment; one of only six mechanised units in the SANDF Reserve Force as of the post-1994 period.
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Son of Henry and Sylvia Langenhouw (remarried, now Dobson), of Wesley Street, Cape Town, South Africa. Worked as an office boy before enlisting.