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[[image:16thcapbadge.jpg|right|thumb|Hat badge for the "16th (Waikato) Regiment"]]
 
[[image:16thcapbadge.jpg|right|thumb|Hat badge for the "16th (Waikato) Regiment"]]
The [[Hamilton Town Band]] became a military band in late-1912, as an adjunct to the ''16th (Waikato) Regiment''. The Regiment helped with funding throughout their association, including a salary for a bandmaster and uniforms immediately following the merger.
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The [[Hamilton Town Band]] became a military band in late-1912, as an adjunct to the ''16th (Waikato) Regiment''. The Regiment helped with funding throughout their association, including uniforms immediately following the merger.
  
 
In 1914, the band acquired a set of silver instruments due to a grant from the Regiment, rather than the brass instruments they would have bought otherwise. These were first displayed for the public in the window at [[A. Eady and Co.]], before being presented to the band by the mayor. In May that year they received their colours in a ceremony at Hautapu, a silken banner bearing the motto of the 16th (Waikato) Regiment, "Ka whawhai tonu ake ake". This is a quote from a speech by Rewi Maniapoto, who fought British forces at Orakau in the Waikato in 1864; when invited to surrender, he replied that he and his people would ‘fight for ever and ever’. In September 1914, the band headed the funeral procession for the victims of the Huntly Ralph Mine Disaster. That year they also played at the Ngaruawahia Regatta.
 
In 1914, the band acquired a set of silver instruments due to a grant from the Regiment, rather than the brass instruments they would have bought otherwise. These were first displayed for the public in the window at [[A. Eady and Co.]], before being presented to the band by the mayor. In May that year they received their colours in a ceremony at Hautapu, a silken banner bearing the motto of the 16th (Waikato) Regiment, "Ka whawhai tonu ake ake". This is a quote from a speech by Rewi Maniapoto, who fought British forces at Orakau in the Waikato in 1864; when invited to surrender, he replied that he and his people would ‘fight for ever and ever’. In September 1914, the band headed the funeral procession for the victims of the Huntly Ralph Mine Disaster. That year they also played at the Ngaruawahia Regatta.
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*A. Salter - Bandmaster, 1912-1917
 
*A. Salter - Bandmaster, 1912-1917
 
*W.J. Siddall - Bandmaster, 1917-1919
 
*W.J. Siddall - Bandmaster, 1917-1919
*Percy W. Williams - Bandmaster, 1921
 
  
 
*William (Billy) Allen - Flugel Horn, 1914: Bugler, wounded 1915
 
*William (Billy) Allen - Flugel Horn, 1914: Bugler, wounded 1915

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