NEW ZEALAND MOUNTED RIFLES

Personal Histories of the NZMR
Troopers stories of the NZMR
Top left: Railway Movement Order issued for the Kantara Railway, the line that ran from the Canal in Egypt across the Sinai and into Turkish Palestine. Top right: The regular postcard home once the troops made leave in Cairo.
Brothers in arms left to right - Troopers Arthur Boswell, Norman Tate, Hector Gaiterer (an ex-publican from Chrishchurch),
Jock Cookey and Tom Cooke outside their bell tent - Alexandria.

SITE MAP


Wellington East Coast
Mounted Rifles












 

Trooper George Fowler
Canterbury M.R.


The NZMR is looking for new members both in New Zealand and overseas.
We are always interested in receiving from members of the public information in reference to soldiers of the Mounted Rifles of world war one. Such items as personal diaries, books, printed articles, old "Weekly News" copies, letters home, pieces of tack such as saddles, spurs - but even more importantly; people. The association seeks the support of horse lovers, sons and daughters, grandchildren and great grandchildren of the men of the NZMR.
There is a desire by many to preserve and promote the gallant men who went as members of a colonial force to the defence of Empire, and returned home to these shores as New Zealanders.