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5 unusual facts about University of New South Wales Regiment


University of New South Wales Regiment

On 9 September 1992 the Queen’s Regiment and the Royal Hampshire Regiment amalgamated to form the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (Queen’s and Royal Hampshires).

The University was sensitive at the time to the standing it had in relation to the historic traditions of Sydney University and thus the regiment was founded along the lines of the Sydney University Regiment.

New Colours were presented at a Regimental Colours Parade on 22 August 1998 at Victoria Barracks, Paddington by the Governor General of Australia, Sir William Deane, while the old colours were retired in St Spyridon's Greek Othrodox Church, Kensington.

On 18 November 1977 Queen Elizabeth II granted formal affiliation between UNSWR and the Canterbury, and Nelson-Marlborough and West Coast Regiment, a Territorial Force unit based on the South Island for soldiers serving part-time in the New Zealand Army.

The University of New South Wales Regiment was originally founded as the New South Wales University of Technology Regiment in 1952.



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