Raised in 1756 as the 2nd Battalion, 12th Regiment of Foot. , The York and Lancaster Regiment ("Royal Tigers") or better known in New Zealand as the "Hickety Pips" by Maori, was in New Zealand for just over 18 years, between 1846-1865, as the 65th (2nd Yorkshire North Riding) Regiment. The regiment arrived in several detachments. The first under the command of Major Wyatt, with about 550 all ranks, landed on 19 November 1846 at Russell; the second, under the command of Capt. O'Connell, on 1 August 1846, at Wellington; the third, under the command of Lt.-Col. Gold, mainly wives and children, on 14 January 1847, at Auckland, and the last, under the command of Lieutenant Priestly, with 84 men, 14 women and 13 children, landed at Wellington 18 December 1852. Commanded by Lt.-Col. C. E. Gold, and later by Col. A. F. W. Wyatt, C.B. "New Zealand" worn on battle honours. The Wellington Regiment (City of Wellington's Own) is allied. Amalgamted with the 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot to become the 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment in 1881.
Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding)
65th Regt The Queen's Birthday, 1854. [Dance programme]
Date: 1854
From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]
Reference: E-455-f-084-5
Description: The programme for a ball in Wellington on 24 May 1854 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on card, 90 x 62 mm
Baptism register - Upper Waikato
Date: 1865-1866
From: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Auckland Diocese : Waikato marriage and baptism registers
Reference: MS-Papers-4072-10
Description: Includes 65th and 40th Regiments, 2nd and 3rd Waikato Militia, some civilians - Hamilton and Te Awamutu
Diary of a British Soldier, Queen's Redoubt, New Zealand
Date: 7 May 1863-6 Mar 1867
Reference: Micro-MS-0445
Description: The author, an unnamed corporal in the 40th Regiment, reports both naval and military action in South Auckland during the Waikato war. The diary ends in November 1864 and is followed by accounts of the author's voyage back to England and his later life in the United States, where he is traced to Arizona in the year 1869. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (130 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm
Camp of the 65th Regiment near Drury, Auckland
Date: Between 1861-1865
From: Urquhart album
By: Temple, William, 1833-1919
Reference: PA1-q-250-54
Description: The camp of the 65th Regiment near Drury, Auckland. The officers mess tent is on the extreme left. Photograph taken by William Temple, circa 1861. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Camp of 65th Regt near Drury NZ; Album page - beneath image - Officers mess Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 12.9 x 20.2 cm, with trimmed corners, on album page 27.1 x 21.7 cm
[Creator unknown] :Historic places [map]. Pauatahanui. [197-?].
Date: 1843 - 1939 - 1847 - 1945
Reference: MapColl-832.47p/[197-?]/Acc.23130
Description: Map showing old military installations from the New Zealand Wars, 1843-7 and the home guard sites of New Zealand Army in World War II. Sites from the New Zealand War include Te Rangihaeata's stronghold (1846), the site of a chapel and the colonial cemetery at Pauatahanui, military trenches (one named McKillops), the barracks of the 65th regiment, the officer's quarters, the Boulton's Hotel of 1847, Troopers Hill, isolated Maori grave along Paekakariki Hill Road, the landing stage of the 58th and 65th regiments, Tandy's constablulary's post and the Waitaha Maori at Ration Point. Sites during World War II include the home guard headquarters of 1941 at Jones Deviation, the 1939 New Zealand Army Unit and United States Marines 2nd division near Kakaho Stream, as well as the Duck Creek saw mill at Bradey's Bay. Shows J Walker's homestead. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 34.2 x 36.6 cm.
Gold, Charles Emilius :Camp of 65th Regiment, Waitara, Taranaki, 1860. [Wellington] Ale...
By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871
Reference: C-028-052-b
Description: Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph
The Wintersgill years
Date: 1822-1891
From: Stewart, Frances E V, fl 2005 : Histories of the Ranby, Withersgill, Burr and McKay families
Reference: MS-Papers-5229-2
Description: History of the Wintersgill family, and in particular of William Wintersgill; includes account the Burr family who lived near the Wintersgills at Foxton Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Articles and letters to newspapers
Date: [19--]
From: Hunter family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0049-135
Description: Undated manuscripts articles etc. Includes The bringing of sheep to New Zealand, and success of Wright in farming them on Mana Island; The effect on an Australian on the view from Paekakariki Hill; The clan first - justice nowhere (suggestion that Scotchmen are favoured by the NZ courts); The Hunter brothers and their house and garden in Willis Street; 65th Regiment Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.
Hustwick, Robert, b 1838 : Letter to his brother and sister
Date: 26 Aug 1863
By: Hustwick, Robert, 1838-
Reference: MS-Papers-3259
Description: Letter to his brother and sister includes description of camp life in the militia at Galway [Galloway] Redoubt, Papakura Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph
Brown, Captain Richard 1804-1860 : Narrative of the expedition to Warea
Date: Apr 1860
By: Brown, Richard, 1804-1860
Reference: qMS-0281
Description: In April 1860 a column of 600 army, naval and colonial forces under the command of Colonel Gold marched south from New Plymouth on a short punitive expedition against rebel Maori villages. Brown, a mounted volunteer, accompanied the column and provides a narrative account of the expedition Richard Brown was captain of Native Irregulars and principal guide of the forces Quantity: 1 volume(s) (19 pages). Physical Description: Ms (33 cm; ¼ blue morocco, blue boards)
Tatler, George 1837?-1868 : Letters
Date: 1854-1864
By: Tatler, George, 1837?-1868
Reference: MS-Papers-2076
Description: Letters to his family relating to his enlistment in the 65th regiment, his efforts to obtain discharge, and his service in Northland, Auckland and Taranaki in the 1850s, Waitara 1860, Auckland-Waikato region 1861-1864. Also includes a letter from George Holland, a cousin of Tatler, 1881 Tatler was a field corporal in the 65th Regiment in Barker Company and was killed in action at Moturoa, Oct 1868 Quantity: 2 folder(s) (52 pieces). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies)
Illustrated London news :The war in New Zealand. The Alexandra Redoubt at Tuakau, on th...
Date: 1863
By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898
Reference: A-434-025
Description: A view from across the river towards a steep hill, crowned with the Alexandra Redoubt. Six Maori canoes are on the river and a raupo hut is in the right foreground. A tree frames the view on the left. A small hut and figures can be seen on the opposite bank. The fort itself has several buildings within low walls, and a flagpole with flag flying Based on an ink and wash drawing by H. J. Warre [Encampment by a river, 1863] in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia, NK2179. (photograph held in Photo File, Drawings and Prints Collection) Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 43, 5 December 1863, p.573 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 165 x 240 mm.
Butler, Villars Le Marchant (Brevet Major), 1837-1874 : Papers
Date: 16 Mar 1858-1874
By: Butler, Villars Le Marchant, 1837-1874
Reference: MS-Papers-0855
Description: Certificates, extracts from despatches, references and citations, relevant to Butler's career in the 65th Regiment. Includes description of action at Camerontown (a fort established near Tuakau) in 1863 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (21 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)
Great Britain. Army. 65th Regiment of Foot : Extract from Digest of service
Date: 1843-1866
By: Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding)
Reference: fMS-Papers-6168
Description: Comprises pages 132-261 of an amalgam of letters and reports regarding service of men from the 65th Regiment while it was in New Zealand, taken from a larger volume covering the whole of the regiment's service Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Letter from Rotherham Museum and Arts Centre to Mr C Feslier, Wellington, explains the holdings of the Centre in response to an inquiry from him Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)
Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962 :[Greeting card]. To Mr A B Scanlan, with Seasons ...
Date: 1860 - 1955
From: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962 :[Hand-drawn greeting cards, and book illustrations. 1952-1961].
Reference: A-365-004
Description: Shows a soldier from 65th Regiment of Foot seated on a bench under a tree with his arm around a young woman. A paper boy is offering him a copy of the Taranaki Herald. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on greeting card 168 x 125 mm
Stewart, Allan, b. 1865 :Brothers in arms. D. company of the Yorkshire Regiment and New...
Date: 1900
By: Stewart, Allen, 1865-
Reference: B-077-012
Description: A battle scene on a rocky hilltop, with South Africans fighting and retreating in the foreground and English and New Zealand soldiers descending from the hilltop towards them, using their rifles and bayonets. Colesberg is in the Cape Colony and there is a site called New Zealand Hill close to it. The action took place on 15 January 1900. See The New Zealanders in South Africa by Dow Hall (Wellington, 1949), p. 20-21 and associated map, for further details. 'On 15 January ... Captain Madocks took some men over to help the hard-pressed Yorkshires and lined the sangar against the Boers. Then, as the enemy still came on unshaken by the fire of the New Zealanders, he 'gave the order to fix bayonets, and charged down the hill, upon which the leading Boers immediately turned and ran down the hill ... General French ... named the hill from which they had ... repulsed the Boers 'New Zealand Hill' '. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - signature and date; Recto - on label beneath work: title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Sepia photogravure, 277 x 420 mm (image) on card 353 x 503 mm
Bates, Henry Stratton, 1836-1918 :The Maori King's flag at Ngaruawahia. Drawn in 1863 b...
Date: 1863
By: Bates, Henry Stratton, 1836-1918; Cowan, James, 1870-1943
Reference: A-138-028
Description: A flag with a cross and three stars flying Reproduced in Cowan, James. The New Zealand wars. 1922. Vol 2, p. 463 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 203 x 155 mm Transfers: Transferred from: MS Papers 39 (Cowan collection).
Marshall family : Papers
Date: 1806-1940
By: Marshall family
Reference: Micro-MS-0136
Description: Includes correspondence and biographical notes of Rev O Hadfield; copies of letters, diary, and notes of Kate Hadfield; copies of letters and diaries of J W H Marshall on active service in World War I; land documents, Rangitikei area; and R Brown's Narrative on the expedition to the southward, 1860 (65th Regiment) Relationship complexity - See also Micro-MS-0125 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 800 frames). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.
McDonald, James Ingram 1865-1935 : Notes made on a trip to Wellington
Date: Sep 1903
By: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935
Reference: MS-1170
Description: Principally the recollections of Samuel Smith of Petone, who arrived in the `Duke of Roxburgh', 10 Feb 1840. Smith joined the Armed Police in 1846 and took part in the capture of Te Rauparaha at Taupo (Plimmerton). He describes the uniforms of the Armed Police and the 58th, 65th and 99th British regiments participating at Taupo. McDonald concludes with an account of a voyage in the Ariel made by Samuel Smith to Dunedin in 1848 to build a police station. Variations in title - Spine title: Te Rauparaha Quantity: 1 volume(s) (6 pages). Physical Description: Ms (23 cm; ¼ maroon linen, grey boards)
Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962 :[Greeting card]. The sentinel. A H Messenger [19]61
Date: 1860 - 1961
From: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962 :[Hand-drawn greeting cards, and book illustrations. 1952-1961].
Reference: A-365-006
Description: On recto: Shows a soldier on guard duty with his gun resting on his shoulder, during the New Zealand wars in Taranaki. Mount Taranaki is in the distance. Inside: Poem entitled `The sentinel' and Christmas greeting to A B Scanlan from A H Messenger, 16 Donald Street, Whangarei. On verso: Upper body portrait of a tattoed Maori warrior wearing a cloak over one shoulder, two huia feathers in his hair and holding a patu Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on greeting card 190 x 140 mm