Royal South Australia Regiment
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The Royal South Australia Regiment
Image:Rsar.gif
Cap badge of the Royal South Australia Regiment
Active 1960-current
Country Australia
Branch Army
Type Line Infantry
Role Light Role
Size One battalion
Part of Royal Australian Infantry Corps
Garrison/HQ 10th/27th Battalion - Keswick
Motto Pro Patria (For Country)
March Song of Australia/Scotland the Brave
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief HM The Queen
(Royal Australian Infantry Corps)
Insignia
Unit Colour Patch
Tartan Seaforth Mackenzie
Abbreviation RSAR
Colours of the 10th Battalion and 27th Battalion RSAR and hat colour patch
Colours of the 10th Battalion and 27th Battalion RSAR and hat colour patch

The Royal South Australia Regiment is a reserve regiment of the Australian Army consisting of a single battalion, the 10th/27th Battalion, part of the 9th Brigade. It was raised on 1st July 1960 as The South Australia Regiment.

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History

The Regiment traces much of its history to early volunteer and citizen militia units from pre-federation Australia. The history of the units that formed the current Regiment are dealt with individually on those pages.

1960 - Present

On the 1st of July 1960 the South Australia Regiment was formed by the amalgamation of three infantry battalions in South Australia:

  • The 10th Infantry Battalion (The Adelaide Rifles)
  • 43rd/48th Infantry Battalion (The Hindmarsh Regiment)
  • 27th Infantry Battalion (The South Australia Scottish Regiment).

These three battalions were formed into 5 Companies:

  • A Company (The South East Company) (from the SA Scottish Regt)
  • B Company (The River Company) (from the SA Scotish Regt)
  • C Company (The Mid North Company) (from the Hindmarsh Regt)
  • D Company (The Adelaide Company) (from the Adelaide Rifles)
  • E Company (The Port Adelaide Company) (from the Adelaide Rifles)

Later in 1960, The Regiment was renamed 1st Battalion Royal South Australia Regiment, bringing it in line with the other State and National regiments. On 1 July 1965, the Regiment was reformed as 2 battalions, taking their names from the battalions that formed the regiment: The 10th and 27th. On the 29 November 1987, the 10th and 27th battalions were amalgamated to form the 10/27 Battalion Royal South Australia Regiment, the Regiment's current title.

Other information

Preceding Units

The organisation of military units in Australia has been a complex and shifting affair since colonisation. The following is an attempt to list the preceding units of the RSAR in chronological order. Units were raised, disbanded and perpetuated in a variety of forms that is not easy to show in a simple list. Often units, depending on their status as volunteer, militia, or regular, were similarly numbered and named, for example the 43rd Infantry Battalion and 2/43 Battalion, AIF in WWII, and often units were split, amalgamated, resplit and reformed, making it almost impossible to create a straight family tree as is often seen for the British Army.

A broad statement is that the Royal South Australia Regiment is preceded by units often known as the 10th (or 78th or Adelaide Rifles), 27th (or SA Scottish or Boothby), 43rd (or 76th or SA Infantry or Hindmarsh), and 48th (or Torrens), and units bearing these designations are now perpetuated in RSAR.


Contemporary Times

The unit has diminished in numbers considerably in the past 10 years, and it has lost it's support company (2007). However, this change has seen the unit provide infantry soldiers for three Solomon Island Rotations in the past 2 years. It has also provided soldiers to for operational service in East Timor and as UN observers in the Sinai.

The unit is currently experiencing its highest operational tempo in many years, and it provides the majority of soldiers for operations within the 9th Brigade.

The unit also has provided reserve soldiers to Australian Army Special Forces Selection. The Regiment usually provides up to six reserve candidates a year for selection. In recent time reserve soldiers from the Regiment have been selected for service into Special Operations Command Australia units. The unit also provides a number of soldiers to the Royal Australia Regiment yearly who transfer to the Australian Regular Army.

Alliances

Battle honours

References
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