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The Papakura Military Camp was established on the outskirts of the town in 1939 and remains an important base for the New Zealand Army, being the home of the New Zealand Special Air Service. [50] The camp was initially built by the Stevenson family construction business. [51]
Other works built by the Stevenson family. [2] and remains an important army base for New Zealand. [3] It incorporates the New Zealand SAS training area and a local suburban area of army homes for personnel on Arimu Road and Russell Avenue in the same vicinity.
New Zealand deployed a division jointly with Australia at the beginning of the First World War, eventually despatching personnel to fill out a full division. Five divisions (three attenuated at home in NZ, the 1st, 4th, and 5th) were raised during the Second World War .
The chapel, named "The Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers Memorial and Garrison Chapel of St Martin’s" is a fully functioning (non-denominational) church, managed by the local chaplaincy in conjunction with the RTNZE CT/ECMC and houses the NZE/RNZE Rolls of Honor, the Royal Engineers (UK) stained glass window badge, a Royal Australian ...
The foreign relations of New Zealand are oriented chiefly toward developed democratic nations and emerging Pacific Island economies. Until the late 20th century, New Zealand aligned itself strongly with the United Kingdom (as a former British colony) and had few bilateral relationships with other countries. From the latter half of the 20th ...
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RNZAF Base Woodbourne is a base of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, located 8 km west of Blenheim. Today, Woodbourne is the Air Force's only support base and has no operational squadrons based there. It shares its runways with the Blenheim civil airport, Woodbourne Airport. [citation needed]
Z Special Unit (/ z ɛ d /) was a joint Allied special forces unit formed during the Second World War to operate behind Japanese lines in South East Asia.Predominantly Australian, Z Special Unit was a specialist clandestine operation, direct action, long-range penetration, sabotage, and special reconnaissance unit that included British, Dutch, New Zealand, Timorese and Indonesian members ...