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Old 25-05-21, 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by 5WWCT View Post
Sorry to drag and old thread up but has anyone read the book by LtCol. C. H. Weston, Three Years with the New Zealanders.

“ Lieutenant-Colonel Hart gave me the command of the Taranaki (C) Company, a command that I had the fortune to retain, with a few weeks' exception, until December, 1916; a long time as time goes in this war. The Company represented in the Battalion the 11th Taranaki Rifles Regiment, which wears on its badge the honours "Waireka" and "South Africa." The fathers and grandfathers of the present generation of that very attractive and flourishing Province of New Zealand had fought for their footing in the country in the Sixties”
Most excellent, it would seem that the honours badges were first issue, most likely ordered before Godley gave approval for a badge without honours.
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