Durban Historical Series # 4 Rough But Ready Traditional Cache
batsgonemad and his squirrel: [8] 21:53
Just to clarify a point made. This cache location is in no way a military base the equipment on display cannot be fired in any way and if they can they are by law not allowed to be displayed in the manner that they are. There are no signs preventing people from getting near the equipment nor are there any barricades around the equipment. The place is in fact a local drinking hole for the old retired army personel and current active members, there is lots of history surrounding this location and the public is in no way ristricted from admiring the equipment.
As we are relocating to Ireland in September i have decided not to activate this location again thereby giving one of the local cachers the opertunity to re-open this historic site.
Durban Historical Series # 4 Rough But Ready
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The Natal Mounted Rifles was formed in 1888 in Durban, Natal by the amalgamation and regimentation of several earlier and smaller units - the Victoria Mounted Rifles, Alexandra Mounted Rifles, Durban Mounted Rifles, Umzimkulu Mounted Rifles and the Royal Durban Rangers (established in 1854). The Regiment consisted of two Wings, but in 1894 the left Wing was separated - mainly for administrative reasons - and redesignated the Border Mounted Rifles.
On 1 July 1913 the Regiment was re-amalgamated with the Border Mounted Rifles, renamed the 3rd Mounted Rifles (Natal Mounted Rifles) and transferred to the Active Citizen Force of the Union Defence Force. In 1932 the Regiment's name was simplified to The Natal Mounted Rifles and in 1934 it was converted to infantry.
In addition to the campaigns in which its various constituent units fought in before the Regiment's formation, the Natal Mounted Rifles served in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899 - 1902), the Zulu Rebellion (1906 - 1907), World War I (specifically in South-West Africa from 1914 to 1915), World War II and South Africa's post-war internal conflicts and "Border War".
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