New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps
| New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 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, 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.
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