The Engineer units raised with the First Echelon were Headquarters Divisional Engineers, 5 Field Park Company, 6 Field Company, NZ Base Post Office, and the Divisional Postal Unit.
In addition an odd man or so was stationed at Divisional Supply Point and forward railhead. The Divisional Postal Unit (1 officer and 24 other ranks) operated four Field Post Offices, one with each of the three brigades and one with Divisional Headquarters. At its peak the Postal Service had a strength of about 200 all ranks. The establishment, like those of other engineer units, was altered from time to time. In addition to the handling of mail, it was the duty of Base Post Office to set up Field Post Offices at Divisional Headquarters, base camps, hospitals, clubs and line-of-communication units as far forward as Railhead. Base Post Office maintained an address history card for every man and woman in 2 NZEF, and these cards were kept up to date from units' daily statements of marchings in and out. The function of the New Zealand Base Post Office (1 officer and 11 other ranks) was to receive the mails, sort them to units and arrange distribution. The Postal units were much smaller, but to the rest of the Division were of extreme importance because they delivered the parcels, papers and letters from home. From a civilian point of view, a Field Park Company was the retailer and a Field Company the consumer of engineering stores. Each company, in the field, was normally in support of an infantry brigade and carried a comprehensive range of explosives, detonators and fuses. A Light Aid Detachment of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, comprising 1 officer and 12 other ranks, was generally attached.Ī Field Company (5 officers and 237 other ranks) was organised into a headquarters and three working sections.
The job of Workshop Section was to keep equipment in good order, repair it, modify it, make it or otherwise acquire it. Holding reserve stores, anti-tank mines and the divisional tool reserve. He is also responsible for everything else that happens, does not happen, or ought to happen to the Divisional Engineers.Ī Field Park Company (3 officers and 153 other ranks) consisted of a Headquarters, a Workshop section, including a lighting set for Divisional Headquarters a Bridging section holding equipment for immediate use a Field Stores section The CRE is the Divisional Commander's adviser on every aspect of military engineering and is responsible for the general direction and control of engineering tasks. The Headquarters of a Divisional Engineers (6 officers, an attached medical officer and 31 other ranks) is the focal point in the necessarily scattered engineer organisation, the Commander of which is known by the British title of CRE (Commander Royal Engineers). This history will, in addition, follow the fortunes of Forestry, Railway, Army Troops, and other non-divisional units. The Engineer component of the division was a Headquarters Divisional Engineers, a Field Park Company, three Field Companies, a Base Post Office and a Divisional Postal Unit. The Special Force-an infantry division-was to be raised in three echelons, each an infantry brigade with a proportion of supporting arms and divisional troops of roughly six and a half thousand men. 1Īt some time in the same three weeks they were medically examined, during which operation they produced a ‘specimen’ stood anxiously while the doctor listened to pounding hearts strained to hear watches ticking at varying distances from their ears deciphered different sized letters and identified colours on a chart said ‘ninety-nine’ very manfully. Throughout the three weeks prior to mobilisation, many thousands of recruits, with an eye to the age limits-between 21 and 35-and the kind of industry not classed as essential, were forgetful about their years and mendacious concerning their occupations. Forgot to said forget about the light house, if you want to speed run.ON 12 September 1939 volunteers were invited to enlist in a special military force for service within or beyond New Zealand. Also bomber you need to pratice where you drop bombs wrong area the tank or the infantry in the building will be alive, then your paratrooper will be usless. dont for get to use your wesp and halftack to guard with ai after you clear out the motar then defend for 1 to 2 min. I use 2Lush and 1 halftack guard the leftside, and use the spg with one halftrack to clear the motar, then call in bomber to clear the middle section, then call in paratrooper to secure the capture point.