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MEMORIAL SERVICES WHERE THE SANDF HAS DIRECT INVOLVEMENT Ser No Service Location Organiser (s) Date Comment a b c d e

1 Infantry Memorial Service Fort Klapperkop, Pretoria

SA Army Infantry Formation Infantry Association

Third Sunday in January

2 SS Mendi Service Portsmouth, United Kingdom

SANDF February Service held approximately every five years.

3 Gunners’ Memorial Service The Gardens Cape Town

SA Army Artillery Formation SA Army Air Defence Artillery Formation Gunners’ Association Western Cape

Second Sunday in March

4 National Gunners’ Memorial Service

Potchefstroom SA Army Artillery Formation SA Army Air Defence Artillery Formation Gunners’ Association of South Africa

Second Sunday in April

5 SAAF Memorial Service Bays Hill Pretoria SAAF SAAF Association

Third Sunday in May

6 Sappers’ Memorial Service SA Army Engineer Formation Sappers’ Foundation

First Sunday in June

7 Arques-la-Bataille Dieppe France Defence Attache to France First Friday in July

8 Delville Wood Longueval France

Defence Attache to France First Sunday in July The Centenary of the Battle will be commemorated in July 2016.

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Ser No Service Location Organiser (s) Date Comment a b c d e

9 Ladysmith KZN SA Army July Commemorates the Siege

10 Square Hill Memorial Service

Square Hill Memorial Kimberley

SA Army Infantry Formation First Sunday in September The Centenary of the Battle will be commemorated in September 2018

11 Gunners’ Memorial Service Durban SA Army Artillery Formation SA Army Air Defence Artillery Formation Gunners’ Association KZN

First Sunday in September

12 Passendale Zonnebeke Belgium

SANDF (Attaché in Brussels) September Held for the first time in 2013

13 El Alamein LHR HQ/ RLI HQ

LHR/RLI Closest Sunday to 23 October

14 SA Army Remembrance Day Memorial Service

Army HQ SA Army Closest Friday to 11 November

15 Sidi Rezegh Memorial Service

SA Army Rotated between South African Irish Regiment, Transvaal Scottish, Regiment Botha and Transvaal Horse Artillery, HQ

Last Sunday in November