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  • The RNZAOC
  • Bibliography and Reference Sources
  • Corps Heritage
    • Honours and Awards gained by New Zealand Ordnance Officers and Soldiers, 1915-1996
    • New Zealand Ordnance Roll of Honour
    • The Legend of Saint Barbara
    • Colonel Commandant of the RNZAOC
    • Call Sign Rickshaw
    • Central Districts, RNZAOC Corps Day 2017
    • Pataka Magazine
    • Officers of the NZAOC 1917-1939
    • 2020 RNZAOC Reunion
    • The Quartermaster trade
    • Principle posts of the RNZAOC and its predecessors
    • RNZAOC Days of Significance
    • Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, RNZAOC Colonel-in-Chief
  • 1840 to 1899
    • Colonial Storekeeper 1840-1871
    • Military Store Department in New Zealand 1857-1870
    • The Historiography of the New Zealand Wars and the Military Store Department
    • Regulations for Gunpowder Magazines, 1872
    • Defence Stores Department 1862-1917
    • Equipping the 1st NZ Contingent to South Africa
    • NZ Defence Stores July 1869 – June 1870
  • 1900’s
    • Ammunition Technician Origins
    • New Zealand Arms to Afghanistan
  • 1910’s
    • Royal New Zealand Artillery, Army Ordnance Corps Section
    • The NZAOC and how it features in the historiography of the NZEF
    • The role of the New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1914-1920
    • NZEF Ordnance 1914-1915
    • Zeitoun Ordnance Cap Badge Mystery
    • Forgotten Ordnance
    • New Zealand Ordnance Depot, Farringdon Road, London
    • New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps (Home Service), 1917-1924
    • New Zealand Ordnance staff at Mulheim, Germany, 1919
    • The NZAOC and the 1918 Influenza epidemic
    • NZEF NZAOC Conductors 1916 to 1920
    • The First Cohort – Ordnance Soldiers of 1917
    • New Zealand Army Ordnance Department, 1917-1924
    • Palmerston North Detachment – NZAOC
    • New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps (NZEF) 1916-1919
    • NZAOC Conductors 1917-1931
    • NZAOC July 1918 to June 1919
    • NZAOC in the New Zealand Division – August 1916 to June 1918
    • NZAOC July 1919 to June 1920
    • Sling Ordnance Depot, 1916-1920
    • Dunedin Ordnance Depot Fire
    • NZ Divisional Laundry and Baths, 1916 – 1918
    • General Godley and New Zealand’s Defence Stores Department
    • New Zealand Defence Stores, Annual Report, 1914
    • Behind the scenes at Takapau
    • The Wombles on the Western Front: BEF salvage development 1914-1919
    • NZAOC MSM Awards 1919
    • Defence Preparations – New Zealand Defence Stores 1911
    • Defence Stores Staff and Quartermasters – November 1911
  • 1920’s
    • NZAOC July 1922 to June 1923
    • NZAOC June 1923 to May 1924
    • NZAOC June 1924 to May 1925
    • NZAOC June 1925 to May 1926
    • NZAOC June 1926 To May 1927
    • NZAOC July 1921 To June 1922
    •  NZAOC June 1927 to May 1928
    • NZAOC June 1928 to May 1929
    • NZAOC July 1920 to June 1921
    • NZAOC June 1929 to May 1930 
  • 1930’s
    • NZAOC June 1930 to May 1931
    • NZAOC June 1931 to May 1932
    • NZAOC June 1932 to May 1933
    • NZAOC July 1933 to June 1934
    • NZAOC June 1934 to May 1935
    • NZAOC June 1935 to May 1936
    • NZAOC June 1936 to May 1937
    • NZAOC June 1937 to May 1938
    • NZAOC June 1938 to May 1939
    • NZAOC relief efforts, Napier earthquake 3 February 1931
    • Ordnance Cricket Team 1934/35
    • Sport and the NZAOC in the Interbellum
  • 1940’s
    • New Zealand Ordnance Corps 1940-1946
    • New Zealand Base Ordnance Depot, Egypt and Italy 1940-46
    • NZ Divisional Ordnance Field Park 1941-1945
    • NZ Divisional Salvage Unit 1941-1942
    • 1st NZ Army Tank Brigade Ordnance
    • The evolution of NZAOC ammunition responsibilities 1939-1945
    • No 2 Sub Depot -Palmerston North, 1942-45
    • NZAOC June 1944 to May 1945
    • NZAOC June 1945 to May 1946
    • NZAOC June 1946 to May 1947
    • RNZAOC June 1947 to May 1948
    • RNZAOC June 1948 to May 1949
    • The Songs We Sang
    • Reports on NZ Ordnance Depots in the Pacific, 1943-44
    • Economic parallels of COVID-19 with 1914-18 and 1939-45
    • NZOC Light Aid Detachments, 1939-44
    • VE Day 75 and the RAOC
    • Reorganisation of NZ Ordnance Services 1 October 1946
    • VJ Day 75
  • 1950’s
    • RNZAOC 1 June 1949 to 31 March 1950
    • RNZAOC 1 April 1950 to 31 March 1951
    • RNZAOC 1 April 1951 to 31 March 1952
    • RNZAOC 1 April 1952 to 31 March 1953
    • RNZAOC 1 April 1953 to 31 March 1954
    • RNZAOC 1 April 1954 to 31 March 1955
    • RNZAOC 1 April 1955 to 31 March 1956
    • RNZAOC 1 April 1956 to 31 March 1957
    • RNZAOC 1 April 1957 to 31 March 1958
    • RNZAOC 1 April 1958 to 31 March 1959
    • RNZAOC 1 April 1959 to 31 March 1960
    • Dissection of a 1950s Equipment Tag
    • K Force Ordnance
    • Statistical Analysis of the RNZAOC in K Force
    • Tragedy at Tikao Bay
    • NZ Aid to French Indo China 1952-54
    • Anti-Aircraft Ammunition Disposal 1955-57
  • 1960’s
    • RNZAOC District Ordnance Depots 1961-68
    • Central Districts Vehicle Depot
    • V Force Ordnance
    • Ordnance during the Field Force era 1964 – 1978
  • 1970’s
    • ANZUK Ordnance Depot 1971-1975
    • The Origins of the RNZAOC Petroleum Operator
    • ANZUK Supply Platoon
    • 5 Advanced Ordnance Depot
    • ANZUK: What was it?
  • 1980’s
    • DOS visit to NZAOD – January 1986
    • A video snapshot of NZAOD
    • 1983 Unit Brief: 1 Base Supply Battalion, RNZAOC
    • A video snapshot of NZAOD
  • 1990’s
    • New Zealand Supply Contingent Somalia
    • Once on Chunuk Bair
  • Ordnance ephemera
    • 1983 National Corps Reunion Souvenirs
    • RNZAOC First Day Covers
    • 1914 – 1919 War Memorial Plaque, St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Palmerston North
    • RNZAOC School Photo Collection
    • Colourised Pictures
    • Coronation Trophy
    • New Zealand Installation Auxiliary Police Force
    • The bell of the M.V Rangitata
  • Dress and Embellishments
    • New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps Badges 1916-1996
    • British Commonwealth Ordnance Corps Badges 1895 – 2019
    • New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps buttons
    • British Commonwealth Ordnance Corps Stable Belts
    • New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps: Trade and Appointment Badges
    • New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps Shoulder Titles
    • New Zealand’s Flaming “A” Badge
    • New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps Puggaree
    • Royal New Zealand Army Logistic Regiment Insignia
    • RNZALR Supply Technician Badge
    • New Zealand Army Logistics Stable Belts
    • Plastic Royal Army Ordnance Corps Badge
    • RNZAOC Lanyard
    • RNZAOC School Instructor armlet
    • Puggarees of New Zealand’s Logistic Corps
    • New Zealand Military Load Carrying Equipment, 1945 – 1975
    • New Zealand Army Combat Boots – 1945 -1980
    • Development of NZ Army Combat Clothing, 1955 – 1980
  • Biographies
    • Charles Ingram Gossage, NZ Division DADOS 1918-1919
    • Sergeant Percy Clarence O’Hara
    • Alfred Henry Herbert, NZ Division DADOS 1916-1918
    • George John Parrell
    • The Hunter Brothers
    • Gordon Cumming Bremner
    • William Saul Keegan
    • Eric Dudley Gerard
    • Frank Edwin Ford, Ordnance Officer 1917-31
    • Captain William Thomas Beck, DSO MID
    • Henry Tucker, the first colonial storekeeper
    • Sergeant Two Bob and Corporal Jenny
    • WO1 David Andrew Orr, RNZAOC
    • Memories of Service – Ron Cross
    • Major Joseph Seymour Bolton
    • Deputy Superintendent of Stores – Joseph Osbertus Hamley
    • Warrant Officer Class One Douglas Keep Wilson
    • Major Oliver ‘George’ Avis, MM
    • Donald Edward Harper
    • Morgan and John O’Brien
    • John Henry Jerred
    • National Service Reminiscences
    • Bryan Nelson Jennings Memorial Trophy
    • Henry Earnest Erridge
    • Brigadier Allan Huia Andrews, CBE
  • Quizes
    • RNZAOC History Quiz No 1
    • RNZAOC History Quiz No 2
  • Ordnance Equipment
    • New Zealand’s Armoured RL Bedfords
    • Australian Mobile Laundry Trailers
    • Mobile Laundry and Bath Equipment 1941-1990’s
    • The Gruber Ration Pack
    • Furness Bomb Disposal Camera and Control Panel
    • Uniforms and Equipment of the NZ Army Contingent in Somalia
    • MT Stores – 1939-1963
    • NZ Military 1st Generation Vehicles
    • 1950s Camp Equipment
  • Real Estate
    • The magazine under Talbot’s Hill
    • Ordnance in the Manawatu 1915 – 1996
    • Waimarino Defence Training Ground
    • The Pātaka of Ngāti Tumatauenga: NZ Ordnance Corps Locations 1840 to 1996
    • A retrospective view of the Main Ordnance Depot, Trentham
    • High hopes for Hopuhopu
    • One Hundred Years at Burnham
    • Belmont’s Chemical Weapon Stockpile
    • The Cave
    • Auckland Defence Store, 1861 – 1903
    • Plan of the Defence Stores Mount Eden
  • RNZASC
    • Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps
    • ANZUK Supply Platoon
    • The Origins of the RNZAOC Petroleum Operator
    • NZ Military 1st Generation Vehicles
    • The Gruber Ration Pack
    • RNZASC/CT association newsletters
    • The RNZCT Lanyard
  • RNZEME
    • Bryan Nelson Jennings Memorial Trophy
    • New Zealand Ordnance Corps 1940-1946
    • 1st NZ Army Tank Brigade Ordnance
    • 10 LAD, Water Supply – Operation Compass, December 1940 – January 1941
    • Kelsey swivel-stock rifle
    • MT Stores – 1939-1963
    • NZOC Light Aid Detachments, 1939-44
  • RNZALR
    • Royal New Zealand Army Logistic Regiment Insignia
    • Rhodesia and Nyasaland Army Service Corps 1953-1963
    • New Zealand Army Logistics Stable Belts
    • The Quartermaster trade
    • RNZALR Supply Technician Badge
  • Rickshaw Military Research
  • Military History Whiteboard
    • David Galula and his influence on modern military operations
    • The identity of Ngāti Tumatauenga
    • Operation Dragon Rouge – The Stanleyville Hostage Rescue Operation
    • Indonesian Counterinsurgency in West Papua

1950’s

RNZAOC 1 June 1949 to 31 March 1950

RNZAOC 1 April 1950 to 31 March 1951

RNZAOC 1 April 1951 to 31 March 1952

RNZAOC 1 April 1952 to 31 March 1953

RNZAOC 1 April 1953 to 31 March 1954

RNZAOC 1 April 1954 to 31 March 1955

RNZAOC 1 April 1955 to 31 March 1956

RNZAOC 1 April 1956 to 31 March 1957

RNZAOC 1 April 1957 to 31 March 1958

RNZAOC 1 April 1958 to 31 March 1959

RNZAOC 1 April 1959 to 31 March 1960

K Force Ordnance

Dissection of a 1950s Equipment Tag

Statistical Analysis of the RNZAOC in K Force

Tragedy at Tikao Bay

NZ Aid to French Indo China 1952-54

Anti Aircraft Ammunition Disposal 1955-57

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