New Zealand

Queen Alexandra’s (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles

The Manawatu Mounted Rifles

The Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifles

	regimented volunteer units Alexandra Mounted Rifle Volunteers Wairoa Mounted Rifle Volunteers Hawera Mounted Rifle Volunteers Stratford Mounted Rifle Volunteers Opunake Mounted Rifle Volunteers Egmont Mounted Rifle Volunteers Warmarino Mounted Rifle Volunteers │		regimented volunteer units Manawatu Mounted Rifle Volunteers Horowhenua Mounted Rifle Volunteers Otaki Mounted Rifle Volunteers Hunterville Mounted Rifle Volunteers Feilding Mounted Rifle Volunteers Heretaunga Mounted Rifle Volunteers ↙ │	regimented volunteer units ↙ Heretaunga Mounted Rifle Volunteers Wairarapa Mounted Rifle Volunteers Pahiatua Mounted Rifle Volunteers South Wairarapa Mounted Rifle Volunteers Ekatahuma Mounted Rifle Volunteers Masterton Mounted Rifle Volunteers │	regimented volunteer units East Coast Mounted Rifle Volunteers Ruahine Mounted Rifle Volunteers Hawke’s Bay Mounted Rifle Volunteers Ahuriri Mounted Rifle Volunteers Hurumua Mounted Rifle Volunteers │
1901:	1st Battalion, Wellington (West Coast) Mounted Rifle Volunteers		3rd Regiment, Wellington (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles	2nd Regiment, Wellington (Wairarapa) Mounted Rifles	4th Regiment, Wellington (East Coast) Mounted Rifles
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1906:	1st Regiment, Wellington (West Coast) Mounted Rifles │		│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │
1911:	2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles		6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles	9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles
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1912:	2nd Queen Alexandra’s (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles │		│ │	│ │
1914/ 1919:	formed The Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment, NZEF
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1921:	2nd New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Queen Alexandra’s Wellington West Coast) │		6th New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Manawatu) │	7th New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Wellington East Coast) │
1927:	Queen Alexandra’s (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles │		The Manawatu Mounted Rifles │	The Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifles │
1942:	2nd Light Armoured Fighting Vehicles Regiment (Queen Alexandra’s (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles) │		6th Light Armoured Fighting Vehicles Regiment (Manawatu Mounted Rifles) │	9th Light Armoured Fighting Vehicles Regiment (Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifles) │
1944:		2nd Armoured Regiment (Divisional Regiment), NZAC │
1947:		2nd Armoured Regiment (Divisional Regiment), RNZAC
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		perpetuates 19th Armoured Regiment, 2nd NZEF
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1953:		│ │ │		4th Armoured Regiment (Divisional Regiment), RNZAC │
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:		│ │		4th Armoured Regiment, RNZAC │
1956:		suspended animation		│ │
1958:		2nd Armoured Regiment (Queen Alexandra’s Wellington West Coast), RNZAC │		4th Armoured Regiment (City of Hastings’ Own), RNZAC │
1958:		Queen Alexandra’s Armoured Regiment, RNZAC │		│ │
1959:		Queen Alexandra’s Regiment, RNZAC │ │		The Wellington East Coast Regiment (City of Hastings’ Own), RNZAC │
		│ │ │		│ │ │		from The Waikato Regiment, RNZAC │
1962:		1st Armoured Squadron (Queen Alexandra’s),		Waikato/Wellington East Coast Squadron,
		Queen Alexandra’s Regiment, RNZAC
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:		Queen Alexandra’s (Waikato/Wellington East Coast) Squadron, RNZAC │
:			Queen Alexandra’s Squadron, RNZAC │	Waikato/Wellington East Coast Squadron, RNZAC │
			│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │		from The New Zealand Scottish Squadron, RNZAC │
1993:			A Squadron,	B Squadron,	Waikato/Wellington East Coast Squadron,	New Zealand Scottish Squadron,
			Queen Alexandra’s Mounted Rifles, RNZAC
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1999:			A Squadron,	B Squadron,	Waikato Squadron,	Scots Company,
			Queen Alexandra’s Mounted Rifles, RNZAC		The Hauraki Regiment	The Otago and Southland
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2002:			Queen Alexandra’s Squadron │		│ │
2003:			│ │		4th Waikato Mounted Rifles, RNZAC │
2025:			amalgamated into 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment		│ │ │

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