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99th Regiment Memorial, Hobart, Australia

 
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Adam Brown
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:54 am    Post subject: 99th Regiment Memorial, Hobart, Australia Reply with quote

I haven't got an image of this memorial but I have found it on this website, War Memorials in Australia

http://www.skp.com.au/memorials2/pages/70073.htm

At this time this regiment was called the 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment. It had been raised in Glasgow and had a diced band on its bonnets. Not much of its ranks may have been filled by Scotsmen by this time but I think it can be claimed as a Scottish regiment at that period in time. In 1881 it became 2nd Bn The Wiltshire Regiment.

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 28, 2014 5:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/conflict/colonial/display/70335-99th-regiment-memorial

I spent most of November just outside Hobart, had I known I would have tried to track it down. However I have found the above link with photos.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 10:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's a great website. From it, here's the inscription on the pedestal

This Pillar
Was erected by the Voluntary Subscription of the Officers Non Commd Officers and Privates of the 99th Regiment to perpetuate the Memory of those brave Men of that Regiment who fell in the service of their Queen and Country during the Campaigns in New Zealand in the Years 1845 and 1846.


Unfortunately the names aren't listed.

There is also a location: Davey Street, Anglesea Barracks Memorial Garden, Hobart, 7000

Here's a very short history of the regiment from this time:

http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/research/history-of-regiments/the-99th-lanarkshire-regiment-1824-1881

The 99th (the sixth Regiment of Foot to bear that number) was formed for general service in Glasgow in 1824 following the request of the Governor of Mauritius for reinforcements. It became the 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment in 1832. Remaining in Mauritius until 1837 the 99th then left for Ireland. From 1841 to 1843 it moved in several detachments to Australia, with the troops acting as guards on convict ships. In 1845 the Regiment was part of a force sent from Australia to New Zealand to take part in the First Maori War. Early in 1845 the trading centre of Kororarika in the northern part of the North Island, was sacked and the flagstaff cut down by Honi Heke Pokai of the Ngaputi, this was later referred to as ‘The Flagstaff War’ The flank companies of the Regiment were dispatched from Australia under the command of the Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Despard. This was a hard campaign against a resourceful and brave enemy; the main actions fought by the 99th took place at Ohaeawai ‘Pa’, the expedition to Ruapekapeka, and operations in the valley of the Hutt. The campaign lasted for more than two years before the Regiment returned to Tasmania. The 99th sailed for Ireland in 1856, leaving behind in Tasmania over 400 men who transferred to other regiments. Many of these eventually settled for good in Australia and New Zealand.
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