NZ8 1st Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, Colour Party

SOMME 1916-18
MESSINES 1917
YPRES 1917
POLYGON WOOD
PASSCHENDAELE
ARRAS 1918
HINDENBURG LINE
FRANCE AND FLANDERS 1916-18
ANZAC
GALLIPOLI 1915
SOUTH AFRICA 1900-02
NEW ZEALAND
GREECE 1941
CRETE
MINQAR QAIM
EL ALAMEIN
TAKROUNA
NORTH AFRICA 1940-43
CASSINO 1
THIESENIO
ITALY 1943-45
SOUTH PACIFIC 1942-44
SOUTH VIETNAM 1967-70

Post World War Two the battalion commenced operations in South East Asia, and in 1958 was in actions against communist insurgents in Malaya, Borneo, and in 1965 in Sarawak. In 1965 New Zealand troops were committed to Vietnam and between 1967 and 1971 nine companies served.

In 1969 the battalion moved to Singapore and remained there until 1989 when it returned to its present home at Linton Military Camp. Since then battalion personnel have had peacekeeping roles in the Sinai, Angola, Iraq, Cambodia, Mogadishu, Bougainville and Sierra Leone.

In 1994 the first of three companies was deployed to Bosnia Herzegovina, and in 1999 a battalion to East Timor, on both occasions for United Nations peacekeeping duties.