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

The Reorganisation of 1921

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After the Great War, the NZEF was demobilised and in 1921 a new organisation was anounced. The number of Mounted Rifle regiments was reduced from twelve to nine by merging. They were numbered 1^st - 9^th New Zealand Mounted Rifles.
In 1927 the names were changed by dropping the numbers and using the erstwhile secondary titles as the discerning element in the new designations.

		1921		1927
1^st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry)	}	1^st New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Canterbury)	→	The Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry
8^th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles	}	1^st New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Canterbury)	→	The Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry
2^nd Queen Alexandra’s (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles	→	2^nd New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Queen Alexandra’s Wellington West Coast)	→	Queen Alexandra’s (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles
3^rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles	→	3^rd New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Auckland)	→	The Auckland Mounted Rifles
4^th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles	→	4^th New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Waikato)	→	The Waikato Mounted Rifles
5^th Mounted Rifles (Otago Hussars)	}	5^th New Zealand Mounted Rifles	→	The Otago Mounted Rifles
7^th (Southland) Mounted Rifles
12^th (Otago) Mounted Rifles
6^th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles	→	6^th New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Manawatu)	→	The Manawatu Mounted Rifles
9^th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles	→	7^th New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Wellington East Coast)	→	The Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifles
10^th (Nelson and Marlborough) Mounted Rifles	→	8^th New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Nelson-Marlborough)	→	The Nelson-Marlborough Mounted Rifles
11^th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles	→	9^th New Zealand Mounted Rifles (North Auckland)	→	The North Auckland Mounted Rifles

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