1st South African Infantry Brigade.

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ZA SMM001 #_#_A412(68)_#
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Archivist's notes: 

-- Note re the helmet flashes, 1915 - 1918.
-- Nominal Roll of Officers - Delville Wood, July 1916 (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Regiment).
-- Information re the wear of the Thistle emblem.
-- Roll Book, no. 11 Platoon, C Coy 3rd Regiment, 1st SA Infantry, 1915 - 1919.
-- Roll of 2nd Regiment, in HM Transport SS Megantic.
-- Casualty lists of 2nd Regiment.
-- List of battles in which the SA Infantry Brigade took part in First World War.
-- Farewell Orders to the South African Brigade by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig and Major-General HK Bethell - commanding 66th Division.
-- Brief information on the 9th Division of the Brigade.
-- Information re equipment and uniforms used by the Brigade.
-- Programme of the 50th Anniversary re-union, 1915 - 1965 and notes.
-- Menu - Golden Jubilee celebrations, 4.9.1965 (signed).
-- 1st SA Infantry Brigade Association membership card, June 1922.
-- Information re LF Sprenger, TJ Badcoe, G Fairdairn.
-- Newspaper cuttings re veterans.
-- Newspaper and journal articles.
-- Negatives re: Brigade Staff; Lt.-Col. FS Dawson; Lt.-Col. FH Heal and officers (1st Regiment); Brig. Gen. WEC Tanner, Lt.-Col. E Christian, Lt.-Col. HWM Bamford and officers (2nd Regiment); Col. EF Thackeray and officers (3rd Regiment).

Administration
Type of Archive: 
Manuscript