• Armoured Corps
• Armoured Car Regiment
• Army Air Corps
• Army Service Corps
• Artillery
• Band Corps
• Cadet Corps
• Chaplains Department
• Corps of Transport
• Dental Corps

• Education Corps
• Elec & Mech Engineers
• Engineers
• Intelligence
• Legal
• Logistics
• Machine Gun Corps
• Medical Corps
• Military Police
• Nursing Corps
• Officer Training Corps

• Ordnance Corps
• Pay Corps
• Permanent Staff
• PTI
• Postal Corps
• Railway
• Regular Cadets
• Signals Corps
• SAS
• Staff Corps
• Veterinary Corps
• Women's Army Corps and other women's services

• This Corps started life as the Army Education Welfare Service. 

• It was raised circa 1917 and became the New Zealand Army Education Corps on 15 September 1954. 

• In November 1963 it was granted the "Royal" prefix.

Royal New Zealand Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. Formed 1 September 1946 and granted the "Royal" prefix on 12 July 1947. It was absorbed into the Royal New Zealand Logistics Regiment on 9 December 1996.

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RNZ Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (QC)

early version collar dogs

later variations of collar dogs

• Royal NZ Engineers Divers patch. This 2nd pattern patch is embroidered on dark green barathea and has an overlocked edge. Measures 42mm in diameter.

• For a brief while the Intelligence Corps existed during WW2. It was resurrected in 1987. 

• For a while they wore the British Intelligence Corps badges (upper left) until their own was designed, based on the WW2 version (centre left).

• There was also a QC bullion version (lower left)

• 3 February 1927 saw the formation of the New Zealand Army Legal Department.

• On 20 November 1950 it became the New Zealand Army Legal Service.

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• RNZ Logistics Regiment started life on 9 December 1996. 

• It was created by amalgamating the 
  • Royal New Zealand Electrical & Mechanical Engineers
  • Royal New Zealand Ordnance Corps
  • Royal New Zealand Corps of Transport

• For a while they used an interim cloth badge.
• That was later replaced with a metal version

2 versions of the MGC badge. 1 has the "stubby" barrel on the Vickers MG

• This unit started life as the New Zealand Machine Gun Corps in 1916 and was disbanded in 1918 at the end of the war.

• It served only in France. Also called New Zealand Machine Gun Specialists.

• In 1940 it was re-raised in the form of 27 Battalion (Machine Gun).

• As part of 2NZEF it saw service in Greece, Crete, North Africa & Italy.

• It was disbanded in 1945.

• On 7 May 1908 medical units of the NZ Permanent Forces were formed into the  NZ Army Medical Corps and the units in the Territorial Force were formed into the NZ Medical Corps. 

• On January 9, 1947 the two Corps were combined to form the NZ Army Medical Corps which gained the "Royal" prefix on 12 July 1947.

N.Z.M.C. cap & collar

• Royal NZ Army Medical Corps with QC, embroidered on blue backing cloth.

Cap & collar of NZ Military Police

• NZ Military Police formed in 1915 and served throughout WW1. 

• They were disbanded in 1918 and reformed in 1939. 

• They sailed with 1st Echelon to the Middle East. Again disbanded, in 1946, they were replaced by Provost Companies. 

• The NZ Provost Corps was formed from those Companies on 18 February 1949.

• They gained the "Royal" prefix on 18 July 1952 and later were renamed Royal New Zealand Military Police in the early 1980s.

• Royal New Zealand Military Police Q/C Bullion wire embroidered Officer badge.

Cap & collar of Royal N.Z. Provost

Officers Training Corps

• 3 versions of the Officers Training Corps badge (Otago University Medical Company)

• Each one is slightly different.

• This information is provided as a guide only. No commercial decision should be based on it.

  • Many images from Phillip James of New Zealand. 

  • Some details from Badges & Insignia of the New Zealand Army by Geoffrey P Oldham. I recommend any collector uses his publication ISBN 0-473-04378-5

  • I do not buy, sell, trade or provide valuations. Any advice I gave may be commercially worthless.