Field Regiment South African Artillery late 1970s
Regimental HQ (10 + 65)
Four Field Batteries designated P,Q,R,S each consisting of :
Battery HQ (4 + 50)
2 Troops of four guns (4 + 46)
Signals Troop (1 + 19)
Light Workshop Troop (1 + 29)
Medical Section (0 + 11)
total personnel including attachments (61 + 692)
vehicles : 0,5t (jeep) : 1
0,75t (land rover) :65
ambulance : 1
1t FCP : : 1
1t (land rover) : 21
3t (Bedford trucks - "round-nose" type) :69
3t gun tractors (Bedford trucks as above) :32
5t (LWT vehicles, presumably) : 4
trailers : 86
motorbikes : 14
SAA comprised at this time the following types of units :
Field Regts (25pdrs)
Med Regts (5.5" guns)
Mechanised Regts (Sextons)
Light Regts (120mm mortars)
Locating Regts (Cymbeline Radar)
Composite Regts