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Life Members
Life membership of the National Rifle Association of New Zealand is one way in which the association recognises outstanding service to the sport. (The guidelines are found under Rules & Policy here).
Our Life Members, past and present, are acknowledged here:
| Miss J. Gebbie | |
| Lt. Kingswell | |
| Lt. Col. Wales | |
| 1947 - 1950 | Col. T.B. Creswell |
| 1950 - 1961 | Dr A.F. Ritchie-Crawford |
| 1954 - 1959 | Maj. Gen. W.H. Cunningham, CBE, DSO, VD |
| 1954 - 1963 | Maj. W.N. Masefield |
| 1960 - 1969 | C. Howard Cromack |
| 1963 - 1977 | E.A. Ballinger |
| 1963 - 1967 | Lt. Col. G.P. O'Leary, OBE |
| 1964 - 1965 | C.J. Nix |
| 1967 - 1972 | Capt. H. Simmons, MC |
| 1967 - 1978 | F.J. Thomas |
| 1968 - 1974 | T.H. Sharland |
| 1973 - 1978 | G.F.R. Gordon |
| 1975 - 2018 | Lt. Col. H.V. Donald, DSO, MC |
| 1977 - 1990 | W.P. Searle, JP |
| 1979 - 1984 | T.S. Prichard, BEM |
| 1979 - 1980 | A.H. O'Donnell |
| 1980 - 1985 | W.J. Burton, MBE |
| 1981 - 2001 | Wg. Cdr. A.R. Grimwood |
| 1984 - 1994 | J.F. Beattie |
| 1987 - 2018 | B.A.C. Hoban |
| 1987 - 2006 | D.E. Whiteman, ONZM, JP |
| 1992 - 2015 | R.G. Lacey |
| 1993 - 2014 | D.W.G. Collings |
| 1993 - 2006 | R.G. Gurney |
| 1994 | J. Bensley |
| 1994 - 2002 | Lt. Col. H.J. Orpen-Smellie, OBE |
| 1996 - 2017 | P.B. McLachlan |
| 2001 - 2022 | S.R. Barrow |
| 2001 - 2020 | C.H. Burt |
| 2001 - 2016 | M.G. Gordon |
| 2001 - 2008 | M.L.R. Win |
| 2002 - 2013 | R.J. Bowie |
| 2002 | J.H. Hand |
| 2002 - 2010 | A. Hanson |
| 2007 | S.M. Bower |
| 2008 - 2013 | G.C. Derby |
| 2012 | A.B. Whiteman, MNZM |
| 2012 - 2012 | A.A. Loughnan |
| 2015 - 2021 | J. Hastie |
| 2015 | T.M. Penrose |
| 2018 | A.P. Doyle |
| 2019 | D.E. Crow |
| 2020 | R.J. Morgan |
| 2022 | B.E. Millard |
| 2023 | G.R.H. Smith |
| 2025 | M. Dodson |
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