NEW ZEALAND RIFLE BRIGADE.
MOKE TRIVIAL NOMENCLATURE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. "Willi the Trcntham Regiment mid 111' 1 two nexv battalions which have just boon accepted by the Imperial (iovernment, it bus been decided to form a ritle brigade, to be called the Trcntham Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). The Trcntham Regiment will form the First arid Second Battalion, and the two new battalions (just accepted) the Third and Fourth BatUUouf.. When the two battalions join their comrades New Zealand will thus have two full infantry brigades at the front, the First Brigade being composed of the Auckland. Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago Battalions, and the Second Brigade as already outlined. The distinction between V rifle brigade and an ordinary infantry brigade is, in reality, very little. Members of the rifle brigade wear black buttons instead of brass ones, and on ceremonial occasions carry their arms at the trail, instead of at' the slope. New Zealand, in her territorial force, has only one rifle regiment—the 11th Regiment (Taranaki Riflesju
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1915, Page 5
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172NEW ZEALAND RIFLE BRIGADE. Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1915, Page 5
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