The 6th Battalion Group (Hauraki), 1898-2012 (Organisation)

SummaryThe 6th Battalion Group (Hauraki) was amalgamated in 2012, when six Territorial Force (TF) RNZIR battalions formed three new battalions. The 6th Hauraki Battalion was amalgamated with the 3rd Auckland and Northland Battalion in 2012 to form 3/6 Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.

History

Auckland Rifle Volunteers Regiment

On 9 July 1898 the Battalion was formed, being called the 2nd Battalion (Hauraki)

On 1 October 1901 the name was changed to 2nd Battalion, Auckland (Hauraki) Infantry Volunteers

On 11 March 1911 the Territorial Force was formed and we became VI Hauraki Regiment

In June 1921 the name was changed to 2nd Battalion, the Auckland Regiment

On 1 June 1923 the name was changed to 1st Battalion Hauraki Regiment

On 1 April 1964 on the formation of R.N.Z.I.R. it became 6th Battalion (Hauraki) Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment

In 1999 it became the Hauraki Regiment

In 2003, it was the 6th Battalion Group (Hauraki)

Kia Kaha 2003 autumn edition, citing Comrades Brave: a history of the Hauraki Regiment (by Richard Taylor)

SourcesThe 6th Hauraki Battalion AssociationJournal of the Tauranga Historical Society: No. 8 (1957)Journal of the Tauranga Historical Society: No. 34 (1968)Comrades Brave: a history of the Hauraki Regiment by Richard Taylor

Photograph Collections, Publication Collections

6th Battalion (Hauraki) Regiment Photograph Collection

The 6th Hauraki Battalion Association Newsletters (1995-2012)

Photographs

New Recruits

Hauraki Regiment exercise

Retiring Commanding Officer of Hauraki Regiment

Army exercise at Hauraki Regiment

Officers and N.C.O's of the Hauraki Regiment

Stories - People

Our Sir Stephen Allen Years by Jackie Fraser

George Joseph McLeod, 1926-2012

Coster, Allen Peniston, 1933-2014 (Person)

Gerald (Tad) Morpeth (1886-1963)

Robert (Bert) Goulding (1886-1987) (WWI)

Stories - Organisations

Captain C W Vennell's early history of the Hauraki Regiment

Commanding Officers of the Hauraki Regiment

The Volunteers - early military history in the Hauraki plains

The Hauraki Regiment - a brief history

Archive Collections

Papers of Colonel A.P. Coster

City of Tauranga Charter for the 6th Battalion (Hauraki) Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.

Archive Series

6th Battalion (Hauraki) ephemera

Publications

Journal of the Tauranga Historical Society Number 8

Audio Visual Files

Interview with Col. Bob Burt and Col. Allen Coster

The badge is described as an eight pointed star containing a lion within a garter. These were cast in either bronze or brass.

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The 6th Battalion Group (Hauraki), 1898-2012 (Organisation)