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Zealand territorial infantry regiments were reorganised into larger regiments, similar to those of the First World War. The 9th (Hawke's Bay) Regiment reabsorbed the 17th (Ruahine Regiment) and was redesignated as 3rd Battalion, Wellington Regiment. The reorganisation was short lived
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Volunteers were disbanded in 1874, but were reformed in 1879 when the Napier Engineers, which had been raised the year earlier, were converted into infantry. The Napier Rifles became part of the Wellington Battalion of Infantry volunteers in 1895, but were transferred to the newly
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Zealand instigated a system of compulsory military training which replaced the Volunteer Force with the Territorial Force. The next year, the 3rd Battalion (Wellington East Coast) amalgamated with the 5th Battalion (Centre or Ruahine) and became an independent regiment titled the 9th
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Zealand infantry brigade of four battalions from the existing territorial regiments. Men from the 9th (Hawke's Bay) Regiment formed the 9th (Hawke's Bay) Company of the
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Regiment (Wellington East Coast Rifles), although the word "rifles" was dropped from the title in 1913. Initially the regiment consisted of only a single battalion, but a second battalion was soon raised in 1912. The 1st
Battalion was based in
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Rifles (A through F companies respectively). The Napier Guards, was originally formed as F Battery, New
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from Japanese attack, while the 1st Battalion was intended to have a mobile reactive role as part of the
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was appointed as the Colonel-in-Chief of the Hawke's Bay Regiment in 1953. The regiment was granted the
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In 1964 the Hawkes Bay regiment was amalgamated with the
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in 1865 and 1866, and were also called up in 1869 during
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1123:; Treadwell, C. A. L. & Hanna, J. S. (1928).
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969:. Wellington: Government Printer. 1958.
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771:Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
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1417:12th (Nelson and Marlborough) Regiment
808:Cunningham, Treadwell & Hanna 1928
229:Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force
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1053:Thomas, Malcolm; Lord, Cliff (1995).
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33:of the Hawke's Bay Regiment
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1357:Auckland Infantry Regiment
1086:. Auckland: Random House.
630:Foote, Ken (10 May 2016).
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410:2nd New Zealand Division
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1488:17th (Ruahine) Regiment
1432:Otago Infantry Regiment
1380:16th (Waikato) Regiment
1142:Henderson, Jim (1958).
860:. 21 June 1923. p. 1743
857:The New Zealand Gazette
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345:German Spring Offensive
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716:"Our Defence Forces"
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191:in 1911. During the
163:Hawke's Bay Regiment
1181:Lea, Peter (1991).
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908:, pp. 280β281.
742:. 16 November 1900.
672:"Hawke's Bay Times"
518:Lancashire Regiment
472:Wellington Regiment
461:Napier City Council
457:freedom of the city
237:Wellington Regiment
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