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The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume II: The Hauhau Wars, (1864–72)

THE 57TH REGIMENT

THE 57TH REGIMENT

The 57th Regiment, after its hard campaigning in Taranaki, was transferred to the Waikato in 1866, with headquarters at Te Awamutu. Companies of the Regiment were also stationed at Ngaruawahia and Te Rore for some months, until the corps received orders to return to England.

The famous regiment (the “Diehards”) is still in existence as the First Middlesex. It well maintained its ancient reputation in the Great War, when from first to last it recruited forty battalions.