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|branch= |type= Armoured Car Regiment |role= |size= One Battalion |command_structure=South African Armoured Corps Army Conventional Reserve |garrison=Pinetown |garrison_label= |nickname= |patron=King Zwelithini Goodwill ka Bhekuzulu |motto=''Toujours Pret'' (Always Ready)〔http://www.saarmourassociation.co.za/umvoti-mounted-rifles.aspx 〕 |colors= |colors_label= |march= |mascot= |equipment= Rooikat armoured fighting vehicle |equipment_label= |battles= |anniversaries= 16 May (Regimental Day) |decorations= |battle_honours= |battle_honours_label= |disbanded= |flying_hours= |website= http://www.umrhistory.com/ |commander1=Maj D. Quinton |commander1_label= |commander2= |commander2_label= |commander3= |commander3_label= |commander4= |commander4_label= |notable_commanders= |identification_symbol= |identification_symbol_label= |identification_symbol_2=Black |identification_symbol_2_label=Beret Colour |identification_symbol_3= |identification_symbol_3_label=Armour Squadron emblems |identification_symbol_4= |identification_symbol_4_label= Armour beret bar circa 1992 }} The Umvoti Mounted Rifles (named after the Umvoti River) is an armoured 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. It is part of the South African Army Armour Formation and is based in the town of Pinetown. ==History== On 16 May 1864 the Umvoti Mounted Rifles (UMR) was founded in Greytown as the Greytown Mounted Rifles.〔 There were some 45 men in the original unit, under command of Capt A.S. Wyndham who was also the Magistrate of Greytown at the time. The ''Umvoti Mounted Rifles Hall'' is the oldest hall in Greytown. It was built in 1880 as a Masonic Hall, but later became the headquarters of the Regiment. It is currently used by the Greytown public works department. The ''Umvoti Mounted Rifles'' was formed in 1893 at Greytown, Natal by the redesignation of the left Wing of the Natal Carbineers. On 1 July 1913 the Regiment absorbed the ''Zululand Mounted Rifles'', was redesignated the ''4th Mounted Rifles (Umvoti Mounted Rifles)'' and transferred to the Active Citizen Force of the Union Defence Force. In 1934 the Regiment was redesignated as the ''Umvoti Mounted Rifles'' and converted to infantry. 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". The UMR since 1920 served under command of the OC, Natal Command as firstly a Mounted Regiment on horseback and then, from 1935 as a motorised infantry unit. In September 1939 they were part of the 1st South African Brigade of the Natal Command.〔Reference see Natal Command article〕 During the Second World War the Regiment served as an Infantry unit and in 1954 was converted to a Tank Regiment and subsequently in 1962 into an armoured car regiment.〔http://www.africanafrican.com/folder13/african%20and%20african%20american%20history2/Goodwill%20Zwelithini%20kaBhekuzulu/Newsletter%20May%202014%20%281%29.pdf〕 During 1984 the UMR was brigaded as the Armoured Car Regiment of 84 Motorised Brigade. This necessitated conversion from a county-insurgency unit to a conventional force and ended 74 years service with Natal Command. The unit was then the Armoured Car Reconnaissance regiment of 8 SA Division and was then part of 84 SA Brigade based in Durban, Natal. In 1999, 84 SA Brigade was closed and the unit then went under direct command of the South African Army Armoured Formation. In 2012 the long awaited new history of the regiment, written by historian Mark Coghlan, was published by Just Done Productions Publishing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.umrhistory.com/ )〕 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「Umvoti Mounted Rifles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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