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in June 1959. In March 1960 the 5th, 6th, and 7th Battalions were formed as a reserve with an 8th Battalion formed on 13 February 1961. The 9th Battalion was formed in 1961 with the 10th Battalion created in 1964. The Depot Company was formed on 1 January 1964 to only be responsible for training, but
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and a rifle green beret with the regimental badge underlain by a scarlet diamond-shaped flash. In war time, from about 1970 onwards, the everyday uniform was camouflage denim with a webbing belt and beret. The colours of the regiment were red, black and rifle green – on the stable belt, black above,
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The RR battalions and their national service counterparts, the Independent Companies, rarely received much attention in the media but covered most of the ground that was ever covered on aggressive foot patrols by the Rhodesian Forces. They ambushed and were ambushed. When there was trouble, as often
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accounted for a very high number of casualties. Due to these casualties and the lack of replacements from the home country, where 40% of the adult white male population was on active service, the 2nd Rhodesia Regiment returned home in April 1917 and disbanded in October. The majority of the Southern
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independent companies (1 Indep Coy RR, 2 Indep Coy RR, 3 Indep Coy RR, 4 Indep Coy RR, 5 Indep Coy RR and 6 Indep Coy, RR) as well as a training depot, DRR, which received and trained most of the Rhodesian Army national servicemen from the 1950s onwards. 3RR and 7RR were Northern Rhodesian (Zambia)
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war when it became manned by rapidly trained African volunteers and conscripts. At the same time the experienced European members, many of them family men, were emigrating to South Africa as the end drew near, so that by December 1979 the Regiment was barely recognisable for what it had once been,
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The Defence Act of 1927 created a Permanent Force, (the Rhodesian Staff Corps) and a Territorial Force as well as national compulsory military training. With the Southern Rhodesia Volunteers disbanded in 1927, the Rhodesia Regiment was reformed in the same year as part of the nation's Territorial
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lorry full of RR soldiers who were first on the scene of a massacre, a contact, or an attack. It was the ordinary citizens who recognised their contribution: as it was, the regiment was peopled by the citizens and the citizens knew it from the inside and the outside. The Regiment was honoured by
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The Independent Companies were where conscripts ended up if they did not volunteer for more glamorous infantry or specialist units, consequently they tended to be the more conservative, long-suffering, persistent sloggers. An intake of some 300 men reporting to Depot RR would be whittled down to
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was called in to surround and eliminate them with superior numbers, firepower and air support. The Sparrows on the other hand, usually three or four, armed with FNs and an MAG, covered in green 'jungle juice', would frequently run down and then face an enemy force which usually outnumbered and
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and the KRRC) and South African military units as it was feared the loss of the nation's manpower in one regiment would have disastrous effects on the nation. Though individual soldiers went to various regiments, the two battalions remained behind for Home Service. The regiment was initially
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all through its long association with the colony and republic of Rhodesia. Morale was shattered and the Regiment, as happened to many others, disappeared when the British peacefully took over the executive powers of the country, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, in that month. With the creation of
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The regimental badge had a cloth diamond shape backing split in half coloured black on the left side and rifle green on the right side with the first three battalions having vertical red stripes for the number of the battalion, one, two and three respectively. The 4th
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is featured above the centre of the cross, with a crown in the middle of the cross. When the regiment was a royal regiment (1947–1970), the royal crown was displayed at the top of the cross and the lion and tusk in the centre.
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approved the transfer of the Colours of the 1st and 2nd Rhodesia Regiments of World War I, together with the Great War Honours, to the Rhodesia Regiment. The Colours are now safeguarded in the Anglican Cathedral in Salisbury.
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out-gunned them. Many people in the Brigade HQ knew how busy they were kept with daily call-outs, and held them in very high regard. One such action which received publicity was the contact at Hill 31 on 15 November 1976.
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about 30 of these individuals, the remainder of the intake 'skiving off' to support or specialist units elsewhere in the army over the course of the first four and a half months. 1 and 4 Indeps were stationed at
1336: 1603: 1593: 1618: 1608: 1588: 1302:, The National Archives. War Office: Correspondence and Papers, South African War. `The Boer War' by Major H. de Montmorency RFA. War Office Ref: WO 108/185 (Diary of Major H. de Montmorency) 1613: 521:(UDI) in 1965, the Royal Rhodesia Regiment (RRR), as it was called from 1947 until 1970, consisted of a number of territorial army battalions (1RR, 2RR, 4RR, 5RR, 6RR, 8RR, 9RR, 10RR) and 6 560:. At Grand Reef, 4RR Main occupied the centre of the camp, while its companies were established in temporary operational bases, usually deserted farms or schools along the sector, in the 1407: 1400: 1393: 1329: 1628: 518: 37: 1510: 1623: 1322: 504:
was introduced in 1955 with the training depot being established at Llewellin Barracks near Bulawayo. With the Emergency in Nyasaland, a 4th Battalion (4RR) was formed in
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and 5 and 6 Indeps at Umtali. 1 Indep Coy formed the core of Rhodesia's fourth Fireforce unit called Fireforce Delta. For a brief time a unit of French volunteers formed
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uniform, like that of most of the peace-time army, consisted of a heavily starched, short-sleeved light green drill shirt and similarly starched KD shorts (knee-long
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Territorial service in Rhodesia was four months active service for training followed by three years of part-time service. With territorial service extended to
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the 3rd (Northern Rhodesia) Battalion, Royal Rhodesia Regiment was formed in 1955. This formation was different from the mixed-race active service
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the 1st Rhodesia Regiment was formed in October 1914 initially consisting of 20 officers and 500 soldiers. It was sent to the
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Rhodesia Volunteers were themselves disbanded in 1920 for reasons of cost, the last companies being disbanded in 1926.
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Service Before Self: The History, Badges and Insignia of the Security Forces of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, 1890–1980
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When there was a contact or a sighting anywhere in the sector, the RR trackers were dropped on the spoor by an
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short trousers), khaki woollen hose-tops and puttees, black ammo boots, a black webbing belt or regimental
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No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War
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in the larger towns of Rhodesia, where the citizen soldiers would report when mustered. During the
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and did the dangerous work of follow-up. When or if they had run the enemy to ground, then the
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was worn from the unit's formation to end of the 1960s where it was replaced by a rifle green
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they were posted to a territorial battalion in or close to the town or city they hailed from.
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and reported in letters to friends that the Rhodesia Regiment acquitted itself very well at
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was introduced in 1939. The Regiment's members were absorbed into British (including the
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and the runway, many of the members of the 'Sparrows' being founder members of the
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The Regiment's effectiveness deteriorated in the last year and a half of the
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Wilson, Graham (June 2000). "Cap badges of the Rhodesian Security Forces".
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in 1953 to 1963 all units received the prefix "Rhodesia and Nyasaland".
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The Rhodesia Regiment was created in 1899 primarily from recruits from
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in 1970, the regiment's title reverted to Rhodesia Regiment with Queen
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With Sword and Chain in Lusaka: a Londoner's life in Zambia, 1948–1972
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whilst a 2nd Rhodesia Regiment was formed in November and was sent to
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Military units and formations of Southern Rhodesia in World War II
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who had previously commanded a Corps of Mounted Riflemen in the
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to name two such camps. 4RR, like some other battalions, had a
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Rhodes and Rhodesia: The White Conquest of Zimbabwe, 1884–1902
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unit camped on the ground at the 4RR Main HQ next to the wet
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On the regimental badge, consisting of a dark grey to black
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and was responsible for the Thrasher Sector stretching from
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battalions that became part of the Zambian military. After
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Rhodesian volunteers leaving Salisbury for service in the
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Military units and formations of Rhodesia in the Bush War
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Military units and formations of Rhodesia in World War I
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Baxter, Peter; Bomford, Hugh; van Tonder, Gerry (2014).
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De Montmorency, Hervey Guy Francis Edward (1868–1942).
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De Montmorency, Hervey Guy Francis Edward (1868–1942).
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when needed provide up to two extra rifle companies.
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insignia
Rhodesian Declaration of Independence
Rhodesia
United Kingdom
Rhodesia
Rhodesia
Zimbabwe Rhodesia
United Kingdom
Regular Army
Infantry
Green
red
black
Second Boer War
First World War
Second World War
Rhodesian Bush War
British monarch
Rhodesian Army
Second Boer War
First
Second World Wars
Republic of Rhodesia
Rhodesian Bush War
During the First World War
King's Royal Rifle Corps
rifle regiment
private soldiers
service in World War II

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