Trentham Military Camp is a
New Zealand Defence Force
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(NZDF) facility located in
Trentham,
Upper Hutt
Upper Hutt ( mi, Te Awa Kairangi ki Uta) is a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand and one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area.
Geography
The Upper Hutt city centre lies approximately 26 km north-e ...
, near
Wellington
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. Originally a
New Zealand Army installation, it is now run by Defence and accommodates all three services. It also hosts Joint NZDF facilities including:
* Commander Joint Forces New Zealand
*
Headquarters Joint Forces New Zealand
Headquarters Joint Forces New Zealand (HQ JFNZ) is the New Zealand Defence Force's (NZDF's) operational level headquarters and is responsible for the command and control of NZDF operations worldwide. It was established in 2001 at Trentham Military ...
(HQ JFNZ), Private Bag 900 or 2 Seddul Bahr Road.
*
New Zealand Defence College (incorporating former Staff Colleges)
* Command Staff College
* NZDF Personnel Records, Archives & Medals
Elements of Army General Staff at Trentham Camp (including Messines Defence Centre) are:
* Logistic Executive (Log Exec)
* Human Resources Executive (HR Exec)- Military Secretary (MS) and Military Career Management (MCM)
* Capability Branch (Cap Br)
Units at Trentham Military Camp include:
* Trade Training School (TTS)
* Wellington Regional Support Centre (WRSC)
*
1st (New Zealand) Military Intelligence Company
*
1st (New Zealand) Military Police Company
*
1st (New Zealand) Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squadron
*
HQ Coy, 5/7 RNZIR
* Joint Military Police Unit Headquarters
* 7th Battalion Band
* Logistics Command (Land)
Civilian police
Prior to 1981 (when the college moved to Porirua), the camp was also home to the
Royal New Zealand Police College
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Recruits at the college under ...
.
Defence Siding
From 1941 to 1954 there were several railway sidings in the Camp used for freight and for troop trains, with a shunting locomotive owned by the Army. Most of the tracks were removed in the 1970s. The siding was 0.53 km from
Trentham Railway Station and 0.63 km from
Heretaunga Railway Station
Heretaunga railway station is a suburban railway station serving Heretaunga in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. The station is located on the Hutt Valley section of the Wairarapa Line, north of Wellington. The station is served by Metlink's electri ...
. A second siding ran back to the
Ministry of Works Depot, which was on the site formerly occupied by the former Central Institute of Technology campus. The dates of opening and closing of the Trentham Camp station (a temporary stopping place) are given as 11/8/1942 to 9/2/1953.
Barracks
The barracks are all associated with World War 1. This is appropriate because World War 1 saw the major development of Trentham Camp and thousands of soldiers trained there before they left for the battlefields of 1914–1918.
Armentières Barracks
Named after the French town of
Armentières, which was utilised by the New Zealand Division as a rest area during World War 1.
Chailak Dere Barracks
Chailak Dere Barracks commemorates an action by the men of the
Wellington Mounted Rifles
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Th ...
on the night of 6/7 August 1915.
El Arish Barracks
Named after the town of
el-ʻArīsh on the
Sinai Peninsula
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which was occupied by the
New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade in December 1916.
Helles Barracks
Named after
Cape Helles
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on the
Gallipoli Peninsula.
Jericho Barracks
Commemorates the town of
Jericho in
Palestine which the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade passed through in 1918.
Le Quesnoy Barracks
Le Qesnoy Barracks are named after the French town of Le Quesnoy that the
New Zealand Division
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Liberated on 5 November 1918.
Messines Barracks
Messines Barracks are named after the 7–14 June 1917 Battle.
Passechendaele Barracks
Passechendaele Barracks are Named after the 12 October - 10 November 1917 Battle which was the greatest disaster in New Zealand Military history.
Salonica Barrracks
Salonica Barracks are named after
Salonica
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(modern
Thessalonika
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), in North Eastern Greece which was the base of the 1st New Zealand Stationary Hospital during the Gallipoli Campaign.
Sinai Barracks
Sinai
Sinai commonly refers to:
* Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
* Mount Sinai, a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
* Biblical Mount Sinai, the site in the Bible where Moses received the Law of God
Sinai may also refer to:
* Sinai, South Dakota, a place ...
Barracks are named after the campaign in which he New Zealand Mounted Brigade fought against Turkey during the First World War.
Ypres Barracks
Ypres
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the Dutch name is the official one, the city's French name is most commonly used in English. The municipality c ...
Barracks commemorates the series of battles fought around the Belgium town of Ypres during the First World War.
Marches
During World War I over 30,000 New Zealand soldiers marched between military camps at Trentham, Upper Hutt and Featherston via the Rimutaka Hill Road, in a three-day trek of 27 miles (43.5 km), There were 23 marches of 500 to 1800 men between September 1915 and April 1918, at the end of their training as reinforcements for the
New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
See also
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Burnham, New Zealand
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Featherston Military Camp
Featherston Military Camp, on a "windswept grassy plain" 3 kilometres north of Featherston, New Zealand was built —after the announcement of National Registration of all military-aged men— to supplement Trentham Military Camp on the other side ...
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Hopuhopu Camp
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Linton Military Camp
Linton Military Camp is the largest New Zealand Army base and is home to the Headquarters 1(NZ) Brigade. It is located just south of Palmerston North.
History
The land that the present Linton Military Camp stands on was purchased by the Governme ...
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Papakura Military Camp
Papakura Military Camp is a New Zealand Army military camp located in the Auckland suburb of Papakura North, in northern New Zealand. It is the home of the New Zealand Special Air Service.
Geography
The camp was established on the outskirts of ...
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Waiouru Military Camp
Waiouru Military Camp is a camp of the New Zealand Army in the central North Island of New Zealand near Waiouru.
All New Zealand Army soldiers complete their initial basic training, the All Arms Recruit Course (AARC), at Waiouru Military Camp. ...
References
External links
Headquarters Joint Forces New Zealand (HQ JFNZ)*
ttp://www.nzdf.mil.nz/default.htm NZDF HomepageNew Zealand Army Homepage
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Installations of the New Zealand Army
Military installations established in the 1910s
Upper Hutt