Guide to the Guide to Collections of the Suffolk Regiment Association (as filmed by the AJCP)

Collection Summary

Creator

Suffolk Regiment Association

Title

Collections of the Suffolk Regiment Association (as filmed by the AJCP)

Date Range

1860 - December 1974

Collection Number

M973

Extent

4 items

Language of Materials

English

Repository

Australian Joint Copying Project

Sponsor

The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.

Introduction

Scope and Contents

Typescript papers relating to medals awarded for service in New Zealand during the period 1845-1866. Many of the papers were compiled from WO100/18, held at the Public Record Office, London.

Parts 1 and 2 of the papers contain the roll of servicemen of the 1st Battalion, 12th Regiment, presented with medals on 30 March 1870. The roll shows for each recipient name, rank, at the time the medal was earned, dates of action, and a note on subsequent service, discharge or death. Interspersed are typescript notes compiled from The History of the 12th (the Suffolk Regiment) and Gilbert Mair's The Story of Gate Pa (1937). The notes include material about the cemetery near Tauranga, New Zealand, where many of the Regiment's dead were buried.

Part 3 contains a list of claims of non-effective officers, NCOs and men of the 1st Battalion, 12th Regiment, showing name, rank, dates of action, and subsequent service. Many are shown as having died in New Zealand, or as having been discharged during the period of the Wars, presumably remaining as settlers.

Part 4, entitled 'The New Zealand War Medal 1845-1866' gives details of army and navy personnel awarded medals for action in the Maori Wars, lists ships serving in New Zealand waters 1845-1866 and regiments serving in New Zealand in the same period, and concludes with a chronological list of some recipients of medals. Part 4 also includes corrigenda to lists in Parts 1-3.

Conditions Governing Access

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred Citation

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Archival History

Filmed at the Suffolk Regiment Association, The Keep, Suffolk, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1976 (AJCP Reel: M973). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

The records were originally held at the Suffolk Regiment Association, The Keep, Gibraltar Barracks, Bury St Edmunds, England. They are now held at the Suffolk Record Office, Raingate Street, Bury St Edmunds, England.

Existence and Location of Originals

Suffolk Record Office (Bury St Edmunds Branch), Raingate Street, Bury St Edmunds, England.

For for further information see Suffolk Regiment Association at the Suffolk Record Office. [https://www.suffolkarchives.co.uk/collections/getrecord/GB174_GB554]

Existence and Location of Copies

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn716684] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Finding-aid Notes

This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2019. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.

Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.

Advisory Statement

Maori people are advised that this Finding Aid contains material and descriptive information which may cause distress. This Finding Aid contains terms that reflect authors' views or those of the historical period, but which may not be considered appropriate today. While the information may not reflect current understanding, it is provided in an historical context.

Subjects

Army and defence: New Zealand; Gate Pa, New Zealand; Great Britain. War Office; Hamilton, H. Meade, Col.; Great Britain; Mair, Gilbert; New Zealand; New Zealand War Medal; New Zealand Wars; Suffolk Regiment; Tauranga, New Zealand

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 449, pp.175-176. [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-397322928]