New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps
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The New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps (NZAOC) was a Corps whose function was to provide, receive, store, repair, maintain, and issue: ordnance stores, vehicles, ammunition, foodstuffs, and ammunition. Ordnance Organisations had previously existed in the Royal New Zealand Artillery[1] and the New Zealand Defence Stores Department, who for the Territorial Army established a temporary Ordnance Deport organisation and trained staff in Ordnance functions for the 1913 and 1914 Annual camps,[2][3][4][5][6] so that on the eve of the great war a cadre existed within the Territorial Army to establish an Ordnance Corps to support the NZEF.
New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps | |
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Active | NZAOD (NZEF) 1914–1921 NZAOD (NZ) 1917–1947 |
Country | New Zealand |
Branch | New Zealand Army |
Role | Storage, Issuing, Repair and Maintenance of Ordnance stores |
Garrison/HQ | Alexandra Military Depot, Mount Cook, Wellington 1917–1920 Trentham Military Camp 1920–1947 |
Between 1914 and 1947 the New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps existed in three distinct iterations;
- NZAOC as part of the NZEF, 1914–1919
- NZAOC alongside the NZAOD, 1917–1924
- NZAOC 1924–1947