Canterbury, and Nelson-Marlborough and West Coast Regiment

The Canterbury, and Nelson-Marlborough and West Coast 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:
*Canterbury Regiment
*Nelson, Marlborough, West Coast Regiment

In turn, those two regiments had originally been formed from the 1st (Canterbury) & 2nd (South Canterbury) and the 12th (Nelson and Marlborough) & 13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiments which had been initially raised in the early 1900s.

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 Canterbury, and Nelson-Marlborough and West Coast Regiment became the 2nd Canterbury (Nelson, Marlborough, West Coast) Battalion Group, with the following unit types:
*Infantry - North Canterbury Company, South Canterbury Company, Nelson Company, Marlborough Company, West Coast Company
*Artillery - 32 (Observation Post) Battery, RNZA
*Engineers - Support Company
*Medical
*Signals - Support Company
*Logistics - Logistics Company
*Brass Band

*Battle Honours (the regiment perpetuates the battle honours awarded to the 23rd, 26th, 30th and 37th Battalions, Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force)
**South Africa 1900-02
**First World War: Somme 1916,1918, Messines 1917, Ypres 1917, Passchendalle, Hindenburg Line, France and Flanders 1916-18, ANZAC, Gallipoli 1915, Suez Canal, Egypt 1915-16
**Second World War: Greece 1941, Crete, Sidi Rezegh, Minquar Qaim, El Alamein, Tebaga Gap, Orsogna, Cassino I, The Senio, South Pacific 1942-44
**Second World War (awarded to NZEF Battalions): Solomons, Vella Lavella, Green Islands, South Pacific 1942-44

Alliances

*GBR - The Rifles
*GBR - The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshire)
*GBR - The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th and The Ulster Defence Regiment)
*AUS - The University of New South Wales Regiment

External links

* [http://cnmwc.com The Canterbury (Nelson Marlborough West Coast) Regiment]

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