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|branch= |type= Reserve Artillery |role= Field Artillery |size= |command_structure= South African Army Artillery Formation Army Conventional Reserve |garrison= Fort iKapa |garrison_label= Garrison/HQ |nickname= |patron= |motto= |colors= |colors_label= |march= |mascot= |equipment= GV5 Luiperd 155mm Towed Howitzer, GV1 25-pounder (Ceremonial) |equipment_label= Artillery Guns |battles= * 9th Frontier War * Tambookie Campaign * Basutoland Rebellion * Second Anglo-Boer War * Maritz Rebellion * South-West Africa Campaign * Second World War * Western Desert Campaign * North African Campaign * Italian Campaign (World War II) * South African Border War |anniversaries= 26 August (Regimental Day) |decorations= |battle_honours= South-West Africa 1915 |battle_honours_label= |disbanded= |flying_hours= |website= |commander1=Lieutenant Colonel C.A. (Kees) de Haan |commander1_label=Current Commanding Officer |commander2=Major Dalene Coetzee |commander2_label=Second in Command (2IC) |commander3= |commander3_label= |commander4= |commander4_label= |notable_commanders= |identification_symbol=Bursting grenade with seven flames |identification_symbol_label=Collar Badge |identification_symbol_2=Oxford Blue |identification_symbol_2_label=Beret Colour |identification_symbol_3= |identification_symbol_3_label=Artillery Battery Emblems |identification_symbol_4= |identification_symbol_4_label= Artillery Beret Bar circa 1992 }} The Cape Field Artillery (''CFA'') is a reserve artillery regiment of the South African Army and part of the South African Army Artillery Formation. As a reserve unit, it has a status roughly equivalent to that of a British Army Reserve or United States Army National Guard unit. ==History== After news of the Indian Mutiny reached Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape, he sent every available military unit in the Cape Garrison to India which left the Cape's military forces badly depleted of manpower. The volunteers of the Cape Royal Corps soon found themselves drilling on the guns stationed in Table Bay. As a result of their work on these batteries the ''Cape Town Volunteer Artillery'' (''CVA'') was born on 26 August 1857 at the old Town house in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town. The regiment is one of the oldest volunteer artillery regiments in the world still in existence today, after it celebrated its 156th anniversary last year on 26 August 2013.〔 Major Duprat was the first Commanding Officer. In 1867 the Duke of Edinburgh was escorted to Cape Town from Simonstown by the Cape Town Cavalry and upon his arrival the Cape Town Volunteer Artillery, drawn up on Caledon Square, fired a Royal Salute as he passed towards Adderley Street. The great occasion of the royal visit was on 24 August, when the Prince laid the foundation stone of the graving dock and the ''CVO'' thundered out again in salute on the laying of the stone. The Duke of Edinburgh was so impressed with the bearing of Cape Town's volunteer soldiers that, a few weeks later on 3 October 1867, a Government Notice No 318 was promulgated to the effect that he had conferred on the gunners the future designation of ''Prince Alfred's Own Cape Town Volunteer Artillery'' (''PAOCTVA''). The words "Cape Town" were later dropped, and the title became ''Prince Alfred's Own Volunteer Artillery''. In 1896, the title was changed again, to ''Prince Alfred's Own Cape Artillery''.〔 The unit served in several regional campaigns, including the 9th Frontier War of 1877 - 1879 and the Tambookie Campaign of 1880 - 1881 on the Eastern Cape frontier, then the Basutoland Rebellion in Basutoland and the Second Anglo-Boer War of 1899 - 1902.〔 In 1903, the title was changed to ''Prince Alfred's Own Cape Field Artillery''. Ten years later, in 1913, the unit was embodied in the Citizen Force of the new Union Defence Forces as the ''6th Citizen Battery (PAOCFA)''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cape Field Artillery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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