{"id":149479,"date":"2017-04-19T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/149479\/regiment-holds-annual-parade-and-wreath-laying-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2017-04-19T15:04:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T13:04:20","slug":"regiment-holds-annual-parade-and-wreath-laying-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/04\/19\/regiment-holds-annual-parade-and-wreath-laying-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Regiment holds annual parade and wreath laying ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Witwatersrand Rifles Regiment recently held its annual Wits Week Parade.<\/p>\n<p>This year the regiment commemorated the battle of Sole Caprara, April 15 and 16, 1945 in which the regiment suffered grievous losses.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The parade was led by a combined band of the Witwatersrand Rifles and the Kempton Park Pipes and Drums and the regiment had two platoons on parade under the command of Capt Sidwell Ramoshaba.<\/p>\n<p>In attendance was the Honorary Col John Job, the Officer Commanding Lieut-Col Gcobani Mazibuko and distinguished guests.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Veterans attended the parade and wreaths were laid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/119504\/we-will-remember-them\/\">We will remember them<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/100783\/a-salute-to-freedom\/\">A salute to freedom<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='5f807f19300e9abd2208473f2f293d17'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who fell in battle were remembered at the annual Wits Week Parade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":149480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1109,1110,979,969,10118,2734,3283,1107],"class_list":["post-149479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-army","tag-fort-bear","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-industries-east","tag-melissa-hart","tag-wits-week-parade-and-commemoration-service","tag-witwatersrand-rifles"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["army","fort bear","germiston","germiston city news","industries east","melissa hart","wits week parade and commemoration service","witwatersrand rifles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}