The Orange Free State republic became a British colony at the end of the Anglo-Boer War in May 1902.

The republic's official arms were discontinued, and on 10 December 1904, by Royal Warrant, King Edward VII granted a new coat of arms to the colony.

Although it had made its appearance in heraldry nearly thirty years earlier (in the crest of the arms granted to Edward Randles of Port Natal in 1875), this appears to have been the first time that the animal was used as a charge on a shield.

[1] [2] When the colony became a province of the Union of South Africa in 1910, the provincial administration took over the arms, which it used until 1925.

Argent, on a mound a springbuck and on a chief Azure the Imperial Crown all proper.