NZ9 2nd/1st Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, Colour Party
MESSINES 1917
POLYGON WOOD
BROOKSEINDE
PASSCHENDAELE
HINDENBURG LINE
SAMBRE (LE QUESNOY)
LANDING AT ANZAC
GALLIPOLI 1915
SUEZ CANAL
SOUTH AFRICA GREECE 1941
CRETE
MINQAR QAIM
EL ALAMEIN
TEBAGA GAP
TAKROUNA
THE SANGRO
ORSOGNA
CASSINO 1
SOUTH PACIFIC 1942-44
After World War Two the New Zealand Army was committed to operations in South East Asia. A primary function of the Burnham Camp became the receiving and training of reinforcements for the 1st Battalion serving from 1958 in Malaya, Borneo and Sarawak. In 1959 the battalion marched through Wellington before embarking for Penang to relieve the 1st along the Malaya-Thailand border. Later from 1967 men would serve in the nine companies deployed in South Vietnam.
Since then battalion personnel have had peacekeeping roles in the Sinai, Angola, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Cambodia, Mogadishu, Bougainville and Sierra Leone.
In 1994 a company rotated with the 1st Battalion company in Bosnia Herzegovina, and in 2001 the Battalion rotated with the 1st Battalion in East Timor on both occasions for United Nations peacekeeping duties.