The Mounted Rifles and Armoured Corps Regiments of the New Zealand Army

The Regimenting of the Mounted Rifle Volunteers

The Reorganisation of 1911

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Following recommendations from Lord Kitchener, the New Zealand Army was reorganised in 1911. For the Mounted Rifles the result was a few merges and one new unit.
However a New Zealand wide numbering was adopted.

1^st Regiment, North Canterbury Mounted Rifles	}	1^st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry)
2^nd Regiment, North Canterbury Mounted Rifles	}	1^st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry)

1^st Regiment, Wellington (West Coast) Mounted Rifles	→	2^nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles
2^nd Regiment, Wellington (Wairarapa) Mounted Rifles	}	9^th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles
4^th Regiment, Wellington (East Coast) Mounted Rifles	}	9^th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles
3^rd Regiment, Wellington (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles	→	6^th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles

1^st Regiment, Auckland Mounted Rifles	→	3^rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles
2^nd Regiment, Auckland Mounted Rifles	}	4^th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles
4^th Regiment, Auckland Mounted Rifles	}	4^th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles
3^rd Regiment, Auckland Mounted Rifles	→	11^th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles

1^st Regiment, Otago Mounted Rifles	→	5^th Mounted Rifles (Otago Hussars)
2^nd Regiment, Otago Mounted Rifles	→	7^th (Southland) Mounted Rifles
		12^th (Otago) Mounted Rifles

1^st Regiment, South Canterbury Mounted Rifles	→	8^th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles

1^st Regiment, Nelson Mounted Rifles	→	10^th (Nelson) Mounted Rifles

The Mounted Rifles of the Territorial Force in 1914

The Mounted Rifles of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War

The Reorganisation of 1921

The Mounted Rifles of the Territorial Force in 1939

The Armoured Regiments of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War II

The Reorganisation of 1944

The Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps in 1950

The Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps in 2015