Monday, October 22, 2012

[JDPUB: 155] NEW BOOK: THE NEW HISTORY OF THE UMVOTI MOUNTED RIFLES 1864 -2004



The Umvoti Mounted Rifles Comrades Association is proud to announce the completion of The New History of the Umvoti Mounted Rifles 1864 - 2004. Just Done Productions has just published this book.

<![if !vml]><![endif]>The New History covers the period 1864 to 2004 and took 20 years to complete.

We are proud to offer this wonderful book to you.
Buy it, read it and add it to your collection of Military History of South Africa.

Standard Hard cover R 500.00 from Just Done

As the reader turns the pages of this book, the history of the illustrious UMR will unfold before his/her very eyes, and the reader will be taken for the ride of a lifetime. The ride starts with a small band of 45 cavalry volunteers in Greytown and ends with a modern Armoured Car Regiment, a compliment of 254 trained men and women, equipped with Rooikat armoured vehicles and a modern and functional headquarters at Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal.

The Umvoti Mounted Rifles is one of the oldest Regiments in the South Africa National Defence Force. It will turn 150 years old on 16 May 2014.

The regiment fought gallantly and with honour in the South African (Zulu) War of 1879; The South Africa (Anglo Boer) War of 1899 -1902; Natal (Bambata) Rebellion of 1906; South West Africa (First World War) 1914-1915 and Gibbon, Western Desert (Second World War) 1941-1943. The Regiment stands proud as the only active Armoured Car Regiment in KwaZulu-Natal, and is ready to serve the South African National Defence Force, The Country and its People, where and whenever called upon to do so.

<![if !supportLists]>·                    <![endif]>Cover Type: Hard Cover with dust jacket
<![if !supportLists]>·                    <![endif]>Number of Pages: 764
<![if !supportLists]>·                    <![endif]>Size: A4
<![if !supportLists]>·                    <![endif]>Publication Date: 20 October 2012
<![if !supportLists]>·                    <![endif]>Binding: Section Sewn
<![if !supportLists]>·                    <![endif]>Black and white photographs throughout
<![if !supportLists]>·                    <![endif]>Colour photographs

Various payment and postal options are available .You may pay via credit card using Paypal. EFT is referred to as BANK WIRE on the site.

Special leather bound limited editions are available from the UMR Association for  R1000
http://www.umrhistory.com or order form can be obtained from umr@dbnmail.co.za or 031- 700 1860 (office hours)


Shirene Dovey
Just Done Productions


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