Wellington's Rifles: The Origins, Development and Battles of the Rifle Regiments in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo

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The British rifle battalions (60 th and 95 th Rifles) carried the Baker rifle, a more accurate weapon but slower to fire and a sword bayonet. a b c "1918 – Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment timeline". New Zealand History . Retrieved 23 November 2013. Capture of German Samoa". New Zealand History Online. Archived from the original on 2022-02-28 . Retrieved 2022-03-06. In the decades following Confederation, Canada's military consisted almost entirely of part-time soldiers - "Active Militia", formed into Battalions of Infantry and Rifles, Troops of Cavalry and Batteries of Artillery - with the exception of a Permanent Militia of full-time paid soldiers established by Act of Parliament and limited to a total strength of 750!

Trooper Donald Wallace Macnamara, Serial No. 7/1758, 7th Reinforcements, Canterbury Mounted Rifles, Embarkation Date: 9 October 1915 (Killed in action 21 September 1916) In 1963 the unit was amalgamated into 1 Armoured Squadron (Queen Alexandra’s) and on 1 st September 1970 it was renamed Queen Alexandra’s (Waikato/Wellington East Coast) Squadron RNZAC with its Headquarters based in at Waiouru.Due to enormous pressure from the British Government for New Zealand to send more troops, the accelerated supply of troops became impossible for the Otago and Canterbury districts to keep up with supply.

Trooper McWhirter is wearing a ‘type 6’ basic frame A/10 hat badge and NZMR ‘type 1’ collar badges. These squadron designations were intended to represent each of the three Territorial Force mounted rifles regiments from which the WMR drew its personnel. As far as possible, each squadron drew its recruits from its geographical region until September 1917. From then on, men were sent overseas as generic mounted rifles reinforcements but were still generally assigned to their region’s unit. Further reading Further information: Battle of Hill 60 (Gallipoli) Big Table Top; the route the regiment used to climb the cliff is shown by the dotted line. J. R. Gaunt & Son were the approved Government suppliers until April 1917, contracts were then passed to a number of different manufacturers.Kinloch, Terry, Devils on horses: in the words of the Anzacs in the Middle East 1916–19 (Wellington: Exisle Publishing, 2007) Unfortunately, finding period photos of these badges being worn is just as difficult to find as the badges are, so we make no excuse for the use of poor quality photographs. Waite, Fred (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs. ISBN 1-4077-9591-0. Field guns fired a ball projectile, of limited use against troops in the field unless those troops were closely formed. Guns also fired case shot or canister which fragmented and was highly effective against troops in the field over a short range. Exploding shells fired by howitzers, yet in their infancy. were of particular use against buildings. The British were developing shrapnel (named after the British officer who invented it) which increased the effectiveness of exploding shells against troops in the field, by exploding in the air and showering them with metal fragments. Napoleon told his brother that Wellington would remain on the defensive for the rest of 1812. Napoleon was wrong.