Joseph Henry Banks

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Lt.-Colonel Joseph Henry Banks
Born	(1843-05-10)10 May 1843 Corfu, Greece
Died	c. 1916 Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	British Army
Rank	Lieutenant-Colonel
Unit	7th Dragoon Guards
Commands	Auckland Militia 6th New Zealand Mounted Rifles
Battles / wars	Anglo-Egyptian War Second Boer War

Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Henry Banks (1843–1916) was the British Commandant and instructor of the Auckland Militia through whose capacity the first six of the ten contingents of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles were raised and trained for overseas combat in the Boer Wars, becoming the core of the modern New Zealand Army.