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Originally Posted by atillathenunns
I would suggest the official date that the New Zealand Army Pay Department, and the New Zealand Army Pay Corps were officially constituted and established, is the 1st April 1917.
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You are quite correct that 1 April 1917 was the establishment date of the NZAPD and NZAPC as part of the NZ Army Permanent Forces.
What confuses matters is that the NZAPC and the NZAOC (which was also established as part of the NZ Army Permanent Forces on 1 April 1917) had also been established as units of the NZEF early in the war.
Althought sharing a common name and role, the NZEF NZAPC and NZAOC had little or no relationship with the NZ Corps of the same name.