SPECIAL FORCE

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 1, 26 September 1939, Page 8

SPECIAL FORCE

Concentration Begins Today LOCATION OF UNITS Rank And File To Enter Camp Early Next Month The concentration of the Special Force will commence today with assembly of officers, warrant officers and non-commissioned officers at the mobilization camps in each military district. They will undergo a short intensive course of instruction and make all necessary arrangements to take over the men of their units when the latter arrive in camp a week later. The concentration of (lie rank and file will start on October 3 and be completed by tlie evening of October 6. Each man will receive orders when and where to report to proceed to camp. In order that every unit of the Territorial Force may be given it.s proportionate representation in the Special Force, quotas have been allotted by Army Headquarters to military districts, and these quotas have in turn been sub-allotted to areas and units. Training camps have been established in each military district, and the following list gives the location of camps and the units that will be quartered iu each of the camps:-— NORTHERN MILITARY DISTRICT. Ngaruawaliia. Divisional Cavalry Regiment (motorized). Headquarters Divisional Artillery. Field Regiment N.Z. Artillery. Headquarters Divisional Engineers. Field Company N.Z. Engineers, Field Park Company N.Z. Engineers. Ist Rifle Battalion N.Z. Infantry. Divisional Ammunition Company N.Z. Army Service Corps. Reserve Mechanical Transport Company (Part) N.Z. Army Service Corps. CENTRAL MILITARY DISTRICT. Trent ham. G.H.Q. (First, and Second Echelons). Divisional Headquarters. Headquarters Infantry Brigade. Divisional Signal Company. 2nd Rille Battalion N.Z. Infantry. Headquarters .Divisional Army Service Corps. Divisional I’etrol Company N.Z. Army Service Corps. Reserve M.T. Company (Part) N.Z. Army .Service Corps. Divisional Postal Unit. Provost. Company. Employment. Platoon. N.Z. General Base Depot. N.Z. Base Pay Office. N.Z. Base Post Office. . SOUTHERN MILITARY DISTRICT. Burnham. 3rd Rille Battalion N.Z. Infantry. 4lh Machine-Gun Battalion N.Z. Infantry. Divisional Supply Column N.Z. Army Service Corps. Reserve M.T. Company (Part) N.Z. Army Service Corps. Field Ambulance N.Z. Medical Corps. Field Hygiene Section N.Z. Medical Corps. The numbers quartered In the camps will be as follows: — Other Officers. ranks. Ngaruawaliia .... 123 2482 Trentham 1-4 .1761 Burnham 98 215(5