The Kimberley Regiment is an infantry regiment of the South African Army. As a reserve unit, it has a status roughly equivalent to that of a British Army Reserve or United States Army National Guard unit.
SANDF Kimberly Regiment emblem
Kimberley Regiment Cap Badge circa 1899
Diamond Fields Horse insignia circa 1877
SANDF era Infantry Formation insignia
The South African Army is the principal land warfare force of South Africa, a part of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), along with the South African Air Force, South African Navy and South African Military Health Service. The Army is commanded by the Chief of the Army, who is subordinate to the Chief of the SANDF.
BL 5.4 inch Howitzer and crew, East Africa, 1916 or 1917. Photo courtesy of SANDF Archives, from Nöthling, C J (ed), "Ultima Ratio Regum: Artillery History of South Africa" 1987
Cap badge of 1st SA Infantry Brigade
South Africans and Rhodesians fight the Germans hand-to-hand in Delville Wood
A South African Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car conducting reconnaissance in North Africa.