page_title: 2 South African Infantry Battalion
section_title: Mechanised Battlegroup
hierarchical_section_title: 2 South African Infantry Battalion / History / Freedom of Walvis Bay / Mechanised Battlegroup
caption_attribution_description: English: SADF 43 Field Artillery
context_page_description: 2 South African Infantry Battalion is a motorised infantry unit of the South African Army.
context_section_description: While at Walvis Bay, 2 SAI was organised as a battlegroup when on 1 October 1973, an armoured car subunit, D Squadron, from 1 Special Service Battalion's became a part of 2 SSB and subsequently 2 SAI. 
   An artillery battery, 43 Field Battery, was also added.
  
  This accounts for the unit insignia including at the top the number "2" in infantry colours, with the St Barbara's lightning flash representing the artillery in the middle and armour's old heraldic colours at the bottom. 
  These elements and the Transport Park and quartermaster were based at Rooikop, a distance inland because of the rust at the coast.
caption: 43 Field Artillery with 2 SAI
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