Cape Field Artillery

Cape Field Artillery
SANDF Cape Field Artillery emblem
Active	26 August 1857 to present
Country	South Africa
Allegiance	Republic of South Africa  Republic of South Africa
Branch	South African Army  South African Army
Type	Reserve Artillery
Role	Field Artillery
Part of	South African Army Artillery Formation Army Conventional Reserve
Garrison/HQ	Fort iKapa
Motto(s)	Ubique (Everywhere) Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt (Whither right or glory) Spes Bona (Good Hope)
Anniversaries	26 August (Regimental Day)
Artillery Guns	GV5 Luiperd 155mm Towed Howitzer, GV1 25-pounder (Ceremonial)
Engagements	9th Frontier War Tambookie Campaign Basutoland Rebellion Second Anglo-Boer War Maritz Rebellion South-West Africa Campaign Second World War Western Desert Campaign North African Campaign Italian Campaign (World War II) South African Border War
Battle honours	Battle Honours Awarded South West Africa 1915
Commanders
Current Commanding Officer	Lieutenant Colonel C.A. (Kees) de Haan
Second in Command (2IC)	Major Dalene Coetzee
Insignia
Collar Badge	Bursting grenade with seven flames
Beret Colour	Oxford Blue
Artillery Battery Emblems
Artillery Beret Bar circa 1992

The Cape Field Artillery (CFA) is a reserve artillery regiment of the South African Army and part of the South African Army Artillery Formation. As a reserve unit, it has a status roughly equivalent to that of a British Army Reserve or United States Army National Guard unit.

After news of the Indian Mutiny reached Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape, he sent every available military unit in the Cape Garrison to India which left the Cape's military forces badly depleted of manpower. The volunteers of the Cape Royal Corps soon found themselves drilling on the guns stationed in Table Bay. As a result of their work on these batteries the Cape Town Volunteer Artillery (CVA) was born on 26 August 1857 at the old Town house in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town.

The regiment is one of the oldest volunteer artillery regiments in the world still in existence today, after it celebrated its 156th anniversary last year on 26 August 2013.Major Duprat was the first Commanding Officer. In 1867 the Duke of Edinburgh was escorted to Cape Town from Simonstown by the Cape Town Cavalry and upon his arrival the Cape Town Volunteer Artillery, drawn up on Caledon Square, fired a Royal Salute as he passed towards Adderley Street. The great occasion of the royal visit was on 24 August, when the Prince laid the foundation stone of the graving dock and the CVO thundered out again in salute on the laying of the stone.