Hi Brent,
During its wartime service the NZEF NZAOC was a very transient organisation with manpower being drawn from within the NZEF, some pers were permanently attached if the establishment would allow it, others would come in, some to allow recovery from an injury, others as a path to up-skill before being posted back to their original units in Quartermaster roles.
Additionally many craftsmen,(armourers, farriers, artificers and the like) were employed in Ordnance workshops but remained on the RNZA establishments and continued to wear the RNZA badge, this would not change until 1929 when they were all transferred to the NZAOC. So for a period craftsmen were found in bot the NZAOC and RNZA.
My hypothesis for the variation of cap badges in the Mulheim picture, is that, as this was during the demobilisation phase of the NZEF, is that the soldiers wearing other than NZAOC cap badges are quatermaster staff from the respective units that have been pooled and attached to the NZAOC to enable the Demob process.
Rob
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