IMPERIAL TROOPS IN TARANAKI.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 260, 4 November 1901, Page 2

IMPERIAL TROOPS IN TARANAKI.

BRIEF ACCOUNT OF SOMK OF THEIR / DOINGS IN THE BABLY DAYS OF THE PROVINCE. "W ri ► r indebted to Mr. W. H. Skinner f <r the following brief sketch of the connection of Imperial Regiments in > whose memory hatchments were an- | veiled at St. Mary's on Sunday, with the early history of Taranaki: 14th Regiment of Foot, now " The 1 Prince of Wales' Own West Yorkshire Regiment," took part in the fighting ot 1861, leading up to the surrender of the Te Ari pah near Huirangi, Waitara. llt afterwards formed part of the comI aiand of General Chute in his Wert Coast campaign, being prominent in the storming of Otupawa pih, inland of the present town of Hawera, and formed part of the force which accomplished the celebrated march through the forest from Ketemarae (Normanby) to. Mataitawa. This expedition virtually broke the back of the Maori rebellion, which shortly afterwards, in 1 1866, came to an end. j 40th Regiment, now South Lancashire Regiment. At the time of serving in New Zealand this Regiment had the greatest number of honours on its' colours of any Line Regiment in the British Army. It landed in New Zea-: land from Victoria in 1860, and suffered severely during the early part of Maori war of 1860, particularly at! Puketek&ueri, near Waitara. It served subsequently through the Waikato war of 1863-4 under General Cameron. { | 57 th Regiment (The " Die Hards "), i now the " Duke of Cambridge's Own " i j Middlesex Regiment. Arrived in Tara-1 jnaki from India in 1861, and served] throughout the Maori war of 1861-6, in the Taranaki and Wellington dis j tricfc, taking part in all the fighting i that occurred between the years 1863 .and 1866, when the regiment returned to Englai d. It) death roll was a very heavy one, as the fine granite monument in the cemetery at Te Henui testifies. Tt is said on good authority that thi old colms of this reg'ment are now hinging in St. FauLondon, 58f.h Regiment, now 2nd bittnlion Northamptonshire Regiment. Came to Australia in 1843, arriving in New Zealand in 1844, and took part in the I first New Zealand war against Heke t at the Bay of Islands, having many severe engagements with the Maoris under their renowned leader Hongi Heke. It came to Taranaki in 1855, and returned to England in 1859, tak- ' ing no part in the Maoris wars of 1800 —IB7O. The Duke of Wellington was [ a captain in this fine old regiment.