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

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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 - Hawke's Bay Company, Wellington Company
Artillery - There was some discussion of converting 22 Battery, RNZA in the Wellington region into an Air Defence sub-unit, but no TF air defence unit is currently active within the NZ Army
Medical
Logistics
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