Wellington (City of Wellington's Own) and Hawke's Bay Regiment

The Wellington (City of Wellington's Own) and Hawke's Bay Regiment is a Territorial Force unit of the New Zealand Army. It was formed in 1964 during the reorganisation of the army by the amalgamation of two separate regiments:
*5th Wellington Regiment
*9th Hawke's Bay Regiment (which had earlier incorporated the 17th (Ruahine) Regiment)

The amalgamation saw the new regiment become a TF battalion of the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment. This was until the later reorganisation of 1999, which saw the TF battalions split from the RNZIR to become multi-function battalion groups. The Wellington and Hawke's Bay Regiment became the 7th Wellington and Hawke's Bay Battalion Group, with the following unit types:
*Infantry -
** A Company, based in Napier
** B Company, based at Trentham in Wellington
** C Company, based in Gisborne
*Artillery - There was some discussion of converting 22(D) Battery, RNZA in the Wellington region into an Air Defence sub-unit
*Medical
*Logistics
*Military Band

*Battle Honours
**South Africa 1900-02
**First World War: Somme 1916-18, Messines 1917, Ypres 1917, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, Sambre (Le Quesnoy), Landing at ANZAC, France and Flanders 1916-18, Sari Bair, Gallipoli 1915
**Second World War: Greece 1941, Crete, Tobruk 1941, Minquar Qaim, El Alamein, Tebaga Gap, The Sangro, Cassino I, The Senio, Solomons 1942-44

*Noteable Leaders*

Lt Col G.B. FaheyWO1 J.M. DaltonCapt M.A. Schmid

Alliances

*GBR - The Highlanders
*GBR - The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border)
*CAN - The Lincoln and Welland Regiment

External links

* http://www.regiments.org/regiments/newzealand/volmil/inf/64wellhb.htm