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History of the Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps and its Antecedents, Contemporaries, and Successors

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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
    • Evolution of Supply Management in the New Zealand Army: From Quartermasters to Logistics Specialists
    • 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
    • NZ Defence Stores July 1870 – June 1871
  • 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 1934 to May 1935
    • NZAOC June 1935 to May 1936
    • NZAOC July 1933 to June 1934
    • NZAOC June 1936 to May 1937
    • NZAOC June 1932 to May 1933
    • NZAOC June 1937 to May 1938
    • NZAOC June 1938 to December 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
    • Adapting to Change: The 1963 Evolution of RNZAOC Trade Structures
  • 1970’s
    • ANZUK Ordnance Depot 1971-1975
    • The evolution of the RNZAOC Petroleum Operator
    • 5 Advanced Ordnance Depot
    • ANZUK Supply Platoon
    • 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
    • The Evolution of Computerised Supply Accounting within the Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps,  1964-1990
  • 1990’s
    • A Snapshot of the RNZAOC – 4 December 1996
    • 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’s Flaming “A” Badge
    • New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps Shoulder Titles
    • New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps Puggaree
    • Royal New Zealand Army Logistic Regiment Insignia
    • RNZALR Logistics Specialist 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
    • NZ Army Camouflage 1949-1979
    • New Zealand Army Berets 1938-1999
  • 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
    • Captain Sam Cosgrave Anderson, Defence Storekeeper 1879-1899: A Life of Service and Dedication
    • Major James O’Sullivan: A Life Devoted to Service and Change
  • 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
    • A Century of Logistics: 100 Years of Continuous Support at Burnham Camp
    • 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 evolution of the RNZAOC Petroleum Operator
    • NZ Military 1st Generation Vehicles
    • The Gruber Ration Pack
    • RNZASC and RNZCT Newsletters
    • The RNZCT Lanyard
  • RNZEME
    • Bryan Nelson Jennings Memorial Trophy
    • 1st NZ Army Tank Brigade Ordnance
    • New Zealand Ordnance Corps 1940-1946
    • 10 LAD, Water Supply – Operation Compass, December 1940 – January 1941
    • Kelsey swivel-stock rifle
    • MT Stores – 1939-1963
    • NZOC Light Aid Detachments, 1939-44
  • Rickshaw Military Research
  • RNZALR
    • Royal New Zealand Army Logistic Regiment Insignia
    • Rhodesia and Nyasaland Army Service Corps 1953-1963
    • New Zealand Army Logistics Stable Belts
    • RNZALR Logistics Specialist Badge
    • Evolution of Supply Management in the New Zealand Army: From Quartermasters to Logistics Specialists
  • Military History Whiteboard
    • David Galula and his influence on modern military operations
    • The identity of Ngāti Tumatauenga
    • Indonesian Counterinsurgency in West Papua
    • Operation Dragon Rouge – The Stanleyville Hostage Rescue Operation
    • The Importance of Stocktakes in the New Zealand Army: A Glimpse into History
    • Securing the Future: Transforming NZDF for Combat Readiness

Dress and Embellishments

New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps Badges 1916-1996

British Commonwealth Ordnance Corps Badges 1895 – 2019

New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps Buttons, an introduction

British Commonwealth Ordnance Corps Stable Belts

New Zealand Army Ordnance: Trade and Appointment Badges

New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps Shoulder Titles

New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps Puggaree

Royal New Zealand Army Logistic Regiment Badges

Uniforms and Equipment of the NZ Army Contingent in Somalia

New Zealand Army Logistics Corps Stable Belts

Plastic Royal Army Ordnance Corps Badge

RNZAOC Lanyard

Puggarees of New Zealand’s Logistic Corps

New Zealand’s Flaming “A” Badge

The Evolution of Helmets in the New Zealand Army

Modernising the New Zealand Army Uniform: The “Dress for the 90s” Initiative

The New Zealand Army Ordnance Badge: A Mark of Disgrace or a Legacy of Service?

Back to basics, a single-colour combat uniform

New Zealand’s “Pixie Greens”

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