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Instruction G1089. To support the force a depot was established at No. 12 Rue de la, Porte
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have been the finish of us. The sight was a sad one to witness the church in flames. We live very well here, The bedding is good, being most comfortable, in fact what with blankets and white sheets to cover us and a picture show with a change of pictures nightly, little is wanted. It is very quiet here the fighting on the
Peninsula was ten times worse than this.
567:"The Defence Department was called upon at short notice to supply tents, blankets, bedding, cooking and eating utensils, for use in the stricken areas. The total value of the stores issued from the Ordnance Stores at Trentham was £35,000. The Ordnance staff did particularly good work in despatching these stores and equipment."
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Zealand Army Ordnance Corps, "Somewhere in France" writes under date June 2lst. 'Yesterday the Germans dropped a shell on a church situated: some 200 yards away, removing the steeple, the shell passed right over our store, fortunately, for had it dropped short it would
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Zealand Gazette of 3 July 1924 published regulations that revoked the regulations that established the New Zealand Army Ordnance Department and New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps on 7 June 1917. Backdated to 27 June 1924 the New Zealand Army Ordnance Department was reconstituted into the New
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Zealand was in the suffering the worst of the depression and on 31 March 1931, under the provisions of section 39 of the Finance Act, 1930 (No. 2), a number of NZAOC military and civil members were forcibly retired and all the military staff of the
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105:, who for the Territorial Army established a temporary Ordnance Deport organisation and trained staff in Ordnance functions for the 1913 and 1914 Annual camps, 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.
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737:"H-19 DEFENCE FORCES OF NEW ZEALAND: REPORT OF THE GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING THE FORCES FOR THE PERIOD FROM 20th JUNE, 1913, TO 25th JUNE, 1914., Untitled, 1 January 1914"
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