[1] Over the course of the following five decades a large number of volunteer corps were raised and disbanded in Canterbury.

[4] Men from the North Canterbury Battalion served in South Africa during the Second Boer War as part of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Contingents.

The Battalion was subsequently awarded the battle honour "South Africa 1900-1902".

[9] Major-General Arthur Pole Penton was appointed Honorary Colonel of the regiment in 1911.

[9] At the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, the decision was made to form a New Zealand infantry brigade of four battalions from the existing territorial regiments.

The Canterbury Infantry Regiment would see action on the western front, engaging in the battles of the Somme, Messines, Broodseinde, Passchendaele, German Spring Offensive and the Hundred Days' Offensive.