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|branch= |type=Infantry |role=Infantry |size=One battalion |command_structure=South African Infantry Corps Army Conventional Reserve |current_commander= |garrison=East London |ceremonial_chief= |ceremonial_chief_label=Honourary Colonel |colonel_of_the_regiment= |colonel_of_the_regiment_label= |nickname= |patron= |motto= Nunc animus (''Now with courage'') |colors= |identification_symbol_2= |march= |mascot= |battles= |notable_commanders= |anniversaries= |decorations= |battle_honours= |identification_symbol=200px |identification_symbol_label= Company level Insignia |identification_symbol_2= |identification_symbol_2_label= SA Motorised Infantry beret bar circa 1992 |identification_symbol_3= |identification_symbol_3_label= |identification_symbol_4= |identification_symbol_4_label= }} The Buffalo Volunteer Rifles (BVR) (formerly the Kaffrarian Rifles) 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. ==History== This unit was formed in East London in 1876, as the ''Buffalo Corps of Rifle Volunteers'', for service in the 9th Frontier War. It disbanded in 1879. (East London is situated on the Buffalo River, hence the name). The unit was re-formed in July 1883 and was named after the region of Kaffraria, the 19th-century name for the region around East London. There had previously been many other units from this region, from which the Regiment can also claim descent: Kaffrarian Volunteer Corps, Kaffrarian Mounted Rifles (Kaffrarian Rangers), Buffalo Volunteer Rifles Corps, Buffalo Volunteer Engineers, Kaffrarian Volunteer Artillery Corps, Berlin Mounted Volunteers, Cape Mounted Yeomanry (1st Regiment), Frontier Mounted Riflemen (Brabant's Horse), East London Volunteers (Von Linsignen's Buffalo Corps and later Walkers Horse).〔 On 1 December 1900 George Herbert Farrar was appointed as a Major in the Kaffrarian Rifles. In 1913 it was embodied in the Citizen Force as the ''5th Infantry (Kaffrarian Rifles)'', but regained its old name in 1932. The unit was temporarily amalgamated with the First City Regiment, as the ''First City/The Kaffrarian Rifles'' from 1954 to 1956. In order to keep pace with the changing political climate in South Africa, the regiment was renamed the ''Buffalo Volunteer Rifles'' in 1999.〔 This Regiment and its predecessors took part in all of South Africa's armed conflicts, including the Bechuanaland Campaign (1897), the Second Boer War, World War I (when it fought in the then German South-West Africa and most of its members went on to serve in East Africa and Europe), World War II (when it fought in the Western Desert during 1941 - 1943) as well as in South Africa's "Border War" during 1975 to 1986 (when it fought in South-West Africa, Angola and Zambia).〔 As of 2014 this regiment is considered to be a "fully integrated and representative" army unit. Members have been attached to the United Nations Operation in Burundi and recently a Rifle company returned from the Democratic Republic of the Congo after a six month spell of active duty as part of MONUSCO. 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「Buffalo Volunteer Rifles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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