Signallers

New Zealand troops signalling with flag, Western Front, 1917

Signallers enabled military units to communicate by using flags (semaphores), operating signalling lamps, laying telephone lines and using wireless radios.

Sections of the New Zealand Divisional Signal Company (part of the Engineers) were attached to the New Zealand infantry throughout the war. They served with the New Zealand and Australian Division at Gallipoli in 1915, and served on the Western Front with the New Zealand Division from 1916 to 1918. A separate New Zealand Mounted Signal Troop was attached to the Mounted Rifles Brigade which served in Sinai and Palestine from 1916 to 1918.

New Zealand Divisional Signal Company, New Zealand Engineers

Name	Unit attached to	Campaigns	Dates	Further information
1st New Zealand Infantry Brigade Signal Section	New Zealand Infantry Brigade 1914–16; 1st New Zealand Infantry Brigade, 1916–19	Gallipoli, 1915 Western Front: Somme 1916 Messines 1917; Passchendaele 1917; Spring Offensive and Advance to Victory 1918.	August 1914–February 1919	Unit diaries at Archives New Zealand Unit diaries at Australian War Memorial
2nd New Zealand Infantry Brigade Signal Section	New Zealand Infantry Brigade 1914–16; 2nd New Zealand Infantry Brigade, 1916–19	Gallipoli, 1915 Western Front: Somme 1916 Messines 1917; Passchendaele 1917; Spring Offensive and Advance to Victory 1918.	August 1914–March 1919	Unit diaries at Archives New Zealand Unit diaries at Australian War Memorial
3rd New Zealand Rifle Brigade Signal Section	New Zealand Rifle Brigade	Western Front: Somme 1916 Messines 1917; Passchendaele 1917; Spring Offensive and Advance to Victory 1918.	1915–February 1919	Unit diaries at Archives New Zealand
4th New Zealand Rifle Brigade Signal Section	4th New Zealand Infantry Brigade	Western Front: Messines 1917 Passchendaele, 1917	March 1917–February 1918	Unit diaries at Archives New Zealand Unit diaries at Australian War Memorial

New Zealand Mounted Signal Troop, New Zealand Engineers

Name	Unit attached to	Campaigns	Dates	Further information
New Zealand Mounted Signal Troop	New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade	Gallipoli, 1915 Sinai, 1916 Palestine, 1917–18	August 1914–June 1919	Unit diaries at Archives New Zealand
New Zealand Signals Reserve Depot	HQ NZEF England	Hitching, later Stevenage, England	1916–19	Unit diaries at Archives New Zealand

Badges, shoulder titles and puggarees

Cap and collar badges: crossed flags and star below enclosed by a wreath on a Maltese cross, with scroll ‘New Zealand Signal Corps’ and surmounted by a crown. Motto: Sodales parati (Prepared as comrades together).