Membership Benefits

New Zealand Fencible Society Incorporated

Membership Benefits

Search the Database

The Society has created a computerised database that contains a wide range of information about the Fencibles, Empire Veterans and their families who chose to settle in New Zealand prior to 1902. The records have been sourced from a wide selection of records such as Papers Past, church records, electoral rolls, family sources, Archives NZ and other publications. Currently the database holds over 78,000 individual names with extensive covering information. The database can be accessed by members following payment of the resource fee. This fee helps cover the on-going monthly website management costs.

Magazines - The Fencible Bugle

Six bi-monthly magazines are downloaded for members on our website along with previous issues currently since 2019. They contain Fencible and other military related articles, details of meetings and new member interests. Over time we hope to download more previous issues with an index to allow members to use them as a research tool.

Library

The Society has a dossier collection for the Fencibles, as well as a library of books and magazines that are available for research by members at meetings and at other times by appointment.

Book - ‘The Royal New Zealand Fencibles 1847-1852’

‘The Royal New Zealand Fencibles 1847-1852’.

Published in 1997 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Fencibles in New Zealand. The book is currently out of print but a pdf version is available to members who pay the $15 resource fee.

Facebook

The Society has a Facebook page as a means for members and other persons interested in the Royal New Zealand Fencible Corp and Empire Veterans to exchange information or post queries. We can all use our combined knowledge to help each other and keep the memory of the Fencibles and Empire Veterans alive.