New Zealand

The Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry

The Otago Mounted Rifles

The Nelson-Marlborough Mounted Rifles

	regimented volunteer units Marlborough Mounted Rifle Volunteers Wakatu Mounted Rifle Volunteers Takaka Mounted Rifle Volunteers Motueka Mounted Rifle Volunteers │	regimented volunteer units South Canterbury Mounted Rifle Volunteers Ashburton Mounted Rifle Volunteers Mackenzie Mounted Rifle Volunteers Studholme Mounted Rifle Volunteers Geraldine Mounted Rifle Volunteers │	regimented volunteer units Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry Volunteers Canterbury Mounted Rifle Volunteers Elesmere Mounted Rifle Volunteers Malvern Mounted Rifle Volunteers Waimakariri Mounted Rifle Volunteers │		regimented volunteer units Kaikoura Mounted Rifle Volunteers Amuri Mounted Rifle Volunteers Cust Mounted Rifle Volunteers North Canterbury Mounted Rifle Volunteers │	regimented volunteer units Otago Hussars Volunteers North Otago Mounted Rifle Volunteers Clutha Mounted Rifle Volunteers Maniototo Mounted Rifle Volunteers Tuapeka Mounted Rifle Volunteers Taieri Mounted Rifle Volunteers Waitaki Mounted Rifle Volunteers │	regimented volunteer units Southland Mounted Rifle Volunteers Mataura Mounted Rifle Volunteers Wakatipu Mounted Rifle Volunteers Kelso Mounted Rifle Volunteers Murihiku Mounted Rifle Volunteers Wallace Mounted Rifle Volunteers │
1901:	1st Regiment, Nelson Mounted Rifles	1st Regiment, South Canterbury Mounted Rifles	1st Regiment, North Canterbury Mounted Rifles		2nd Regiment, North Canterbury Mounted Rifles	1st Regiment, Otago Mounted Rifles	2nd Regiment, Otago Mounted Rifles
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1911:	10th (Nelson) Mounted Rifles	8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles	1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry)		12th (Otago) Mounted Rifles	5th Mounted Rifles (Otago Hussars)	7th (Southland) Mounted Rifles
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1914/ 1919:	formed The Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment, NZEF				formed The Otago Mounted Rifles Regiment, NZEF
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1917:	10th (Nelson and Marlborough) Mounted Rifles │	│ │ │	│ │ │		│ │ │	│ │ │	│ │ │
1921:	8th New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Nelson-Marlborough) │	1st New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Canterbury) │			5th New Zealand Mounted Rifles │ │
1923:	│ │ │	│ │ │			5th New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Otago Hussars) │
1927:	The Nelson-Marlborough Mounted Rifles │	The Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry │ │			The Otago Mounted Rifles │ │
1942:	10th Light Armoured Fighting Vehicles Regiment (Nelson-Marlborough Mounted Rifles) │	1st Light Armoured Fighting Vehicles Regiment (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry) │ │			5th Light Armoured Fighting Vehicles Regiment (Otago Mounted Rifles) │ │
1944:	3rd Armoured Regiment, NZAC │
1947:	3rd Armoured Regiment, RNZAC
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			perpetuates 20th Armoured Regiment, 2nd NZEF
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1956:	suspended animation