Once at Gallipoli, he immediately began to impose order and although he pushed his men hard, he also fought his superiors to provide building materials and basic comforts to his men. The hat went on to be adopted first by Malone’s Wellington Regiment and later by the rest of the NZ Infantry Division on 1 st January 1916.Īt the outbreak of war in 1914 Malone was appointed to command the Wellington Infantry Battalion and at 56 proved to be both a forceful and efficient commander. Originally for his Taranaki Rifles Regiment the hat was designed to mirror the outline of Mount Taranaki and also to allow ‘run off’ in the rain. The iconic kiwi ‘lemon squeezer’ hat was introduced by one of New Zealand’s outstanding soldiers of the Gallipoli Campaign, William George Malone.
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