The 2021 association AGM was held on Saturday 30th OCtober 2021, as a virtual/online meeting using "Zoom". Next year's 2022 AGM/Annual Reunion will be held in Christchurch, on the weekend of 11-13 November 2022.
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Key upcoming events:
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Gunner's Day, Friday 26th May 2023.
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2023 RNZA Association AGM/Annual Reunion at Trentham Military Camp, Wellington. Date to be decided but likely a weekend in late Oct or Nov.
- St Barbara's Day, Monday 4th December 2023.
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Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
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Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
It is with great sadness that I need to inform you of the passing of Brig (Rtd) Geof Hitchings, CBE. I received the following family Death Notice from Col (Rtd) Rob Hitchings, former CO 16 Fd Regt, this morning:
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Saturday, 2 October, 2021
Dear RNZA Association members.
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Friday, 1 October, 2021
The RNZAA committee has been monitoring the current COVID-19 levels across NZ in the knowledge that Trentham Camp can only host our AGM weekend if Wellington is at COVID-19 Alert Level 1.
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Friday, 10 September, 2021
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Friday, 23 April, 2021
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Monday, 12 April, 2021
The RNZA Association Q Store webapge has two new products available, RNZA Table Runners, and Artillery ties.
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Thursday, 1 April, 2021
Anyone who is interested in sailing would be fascinated, I’m sure, by RNZA Officer Steve Newman' s harrowing account of survival after the boat he was on sunk in a storm whilst in transit from Fiji to New Zealand in November 2019.
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Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
Any members who have served in or are interested in 4th Medium Regiment/Battery's new initiative to record and display their history in the Waikato over the last 100yrs please email your interest to Jack Mills at the address below so he can keep you up to speed on things.
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Saturday, 26 December, 2020
The association AGM/Annual Reunion went ahead as planned and the turnout was commendable given the covid uncertainty leading into October. The success of this year's Trentham Camp location sees us planning a repeat there for 2021.
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Sunday, 6 December, 2020
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Friday, 23 October, 2020
The Master Gunner St James’s Park has prepared a video-message in which he addresses the 78th Anniversary of the Second Battle of El Alamein (which commenced at 2140hrs (local Egyptian time) on 23 Oct 1942), and the key part played by our respective Royal Artilleries and individuals from our Nati
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Thursday, 22 October, 2020
In case some website visitors are puzzled by the website looking a little different, we have updated the look of it slightly with a different font.
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Friday, 21 August, 2020
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN. RNZA Association 86th AGM/Annual Reunion 2020, Friday 16th – Sunday 18th October, Trentham Military Camp, Upper Hutt.
Join your comrades-in-arms for a weekend of memories and socialising.Don't let this opportunity slip by – REGISTER NOW.
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Friday, 12 June, 2020
Fellow Gunners,
Today I have heard of the introduction into Parliament of a Bill to amend the Veterans Affairs Act 2014. The Bill aims to implement some recommendations from the Patterson Report.
I am setting out below the statement by the Minister, Mr Ron Mark.