OFFICER & Enlisted Cap Badges HAURAKI INFANTRY Regiment New Zealand 1 by GAUNT

Description

This listing is for BOTH badges shown in image # 1, 2, 3, & 4.
The Officer's Fire Gilt is impressed "J.R. Gaunt London" this was an OFFICER-ONLY private purchase cap badge for wear on the Patrol Uniform
Patrol Uniforms were phased-out after WW2
The Brass enlisted ranks cap badge is not maker marked and is probably WW1 era
The JR Gaunt badge beside the ruler was already SOLD and it there only to show the size of the two badges on offer (All were exactly the same size)
The Hauraki Regiment is a Territorial Force unit of the New Zealand Army.
The regiment is unique among the TF units in that it has never been amalgamated, and thus can trace its history directly back to its formation in 1898.
The regiment was formed as the 2nd (Hauraki) Battalion, Auckland Rifle Volunteers.
Men of the Hauraki Regiment served during the First World War with the various Auckland Regiments, and with the 18th, 21st, 24th and 29th Battalions of the NZEF in the Second World War.
With the reorganisation of the army in 1964, the regiment become a TF battalion of the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
This was until the later reorganisation of 1999, which saw the TF battalions split from the RNZIR to become multi-function battalion groups.
The Hauraki Regiment became the 6th Hauraki Battalion Group, with the following unit types:
Infantry
Medical
Logistics
Battle Honours
South Africa 1900–02
First World War: Landing at ANZAC, Krithia, Sari Bair, Flers -Courcelette, Messines 1917, Broodseinde, Arras 1918, Bapaume 1918, Canal Du Nord, Sambre
Second World War: Crete, Mount Olympus, Tobruk 1941, Defence of Alamein Line, El Alamein, Tebaga Gap, The Sangro, Cassino I, The Senio, Solomons
Do please view my "Seller's other listings" in case you might like to buy more than one
If you buy more than one badge ?
We will happily COMBINE these....... so that you pay only a single postage charge :-)
All badges are unconditionally guaranteed 100% GENUINE for life, that guarantee INCLUDES their cost of postage BOTH ways
The "for life" part ? means that you cannot ask for a refund after you have died :-)
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Postage
First Class Air Mail (6-10 DAYS)
New Zealand residents SORRY but you pay GST @15% on purchase price
BECAUSE we must pay GST on all locally-addressed deliveries :-(
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