17 Field Artillery

17 Field Artillery Regiment was a reserve South African Artillery unit.

History
17 Field Artillery Regiment was formed in 1975 as a Citizen Force unit in Pretoria.

17 Field was originally a offshoot of the University of Pretoria Regiment.

Divisional Support
It was a new artillery counter-insurgency unit whose purpose was to provide support for 73 Motorised Brigade from 1975 to 1991.

Artillery Type
The term Field Regiment was not quite descriptive of this unit which comprised a number of artillery elements such as field guns, medium mortars and a locating artillery element being essentially radar. It could also be referred to as a composite regiment.

Amalgamation
17 Field Regiment was eventually amalgamated into the Transvaalse Staatsartillerie in October 1991.