926:
997:
600:
876:
808:
700:: a hutted encampment was provided for troops to practise combined training, alongside a depot to furnish them with field stores. In the 1880s an effort was made to decentralise the reserves of equipment; as many as sixty-two small regional centres were set up, in an effort to bring stores closer to the units that would use them. Later, with the establishment of larger camps and garrisons in the early 20th century, these were consolidated into eighteen larger Ordnance stations. At the same time, during the period from the 1860s to 1914, various depots were established to support the Army throughout the world (with the notable exception of India where the Indian Army managed its own parallel organisation in
768:
668:
855:
47:
517:, first established in 1794) had been disbanded as a cost-cutting measure in 1833, however, and its responsibilities devolved again to the Commissariat (which was by now more attuned to peacetime operations than warfare); after a well-publicised series of logistical failings the Commissariat and the Board of Ordnance, as well as the command-structure of the army itself, were all strongly criticised, leading (among other things) to the abolition of the Board (in 1855) and its Field Train Department (in 1859, its officers having transferred to the new Military Store Department).
315:
97:
79:
265:
1576:, RAOC recruits were required to be at least 5 feet 2 inches tall (5 feet 4 inches for Driver Mechanics) and could enlist up to 25 years of age. They initially enlisted for three years with the colours and a further nine years with the reserve. Fitters could also choose six years with the colours and six years in the reserve, or eight and four years. Clerks and Storemen enlisted for six years and six years. They trained at the RAOC Depot,
1556:. The garrison church, first at Hilsea and then at Deepcut, was dedicated in her name; the pulpit, organ, stained glass windows and several memorials were transferred from the former to the latter when Hilsea Barracks closed in 1962. There was also a St Barbara's Church at CAD Bramley, which had originally come from the depot in Pimlico; having done service in Bramley for 52 years it was again disassembled in 1978 and moved to Didcot.
1481:
185:. At its renaming as a Royal Corps in 1918 it was both a supply and repair corps. In the supply area it had responsibility for weapons, armoured vehicles and other military equipment, ammunition and clothing and certain minor functions such as laundry, mobile baths and photography. The RAOC was also responsible for a major element of the repair of Army equipment. In 1942 the latter function was transferred to the
1219:(these, in turn, closed in 1971). The Ordnance depot in Gibraltar, where the Board of Ordnance had first established a facility in 1704, was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1964; and the depot in Malta, dating from the 1830s, closed in March 1972. The Ordnance Depot in Cyprus became part of the Joint Logistic Unit in 1988. In Germany, 15 BOD and 3 Base Ammunition and Petrol Depot (BAPD) closed in 1992.
158:
988:(REME) absorbed most of the RAOC repair functions and the RAOC in turn took over the RASC's vehicle organisation. The more mobile nature of the Second World War also led to the creation of units at divisional and corps level with higher levels of mobility. The most notable of these was the ordnance field park, principally carrying vehicle and technical stores spares.
949:, Shropshire in 1940 (in order to remove critical items from Woolwich to a less vulnerable site) and purpose-built depots for both tracked and wheeled vehicles were opened across the country. Woolwich then ceased operating as a COD (though by the end of 1942 it was again being used for bulk storage, albeit as a sub-depot of COD Greenford).
827:. Both the sheer scale of the war and the increasing technical complexity created an organisational structure that, in its outlines, survives until today. The depots at Woolwich, Weedon and Pimlico were supplemented by the wholesale takeover of warehouses throughout the country and in early 1915 a depot was established at
1255:. Later that year the RLC withdrew from the Tower of London, where the RAOC had continued to maintain a centuries-old link; and the following year the last vestige of the once-vast ordnance depot left Woolwich, with the closure of Royal Arsenal (West) and departure of the Ordnance QAD (Quality Assurance Directorate).
305:. ...the many alterations in administration that followed the abolition of the Board of Ordnance, through the last 30 years, can only be read as a negative evidence in favour of the organisation, and as positive proof that the machinery of effective Army Store administration has yet to be evolved from its ruins.'
1372:
After 1980/1 most of these titles disappeared with the notable exception of CATO/SATO and DOWO/BOWO. All RAOC appointments gave the staff grade (e.g. Staff
Officer Grade 2: SO2 suffixed with the word Sup), the head of corps in a headquarters irrespective of rank was titled Comd Sup. In MOD the titles
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In the mid-1960s new recruits were informed that 'The RAOC occupies nearly 90 different locations in the UK alone and world wide uses 86,000,000 square feet of storage space. Over 1,000,000 different items are held in stock and over 11,000,000 issues are made in a year'. By 1980 the RAOC was reduced
1094:
from the Suez base, agreed to withdrawal of all troops within 20 months (that is, June 1956); maintenance of the base was to be continued; and allowed
Britain to hold the right to return for seven years. The compromise solution to retain British influence over the Suez Canal base area, seen as vital
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held reserve stocks of camp equipment, entrenching tools, small-arms and ammunition, accoutrements, harness and saddlery (similar stores were also provided at Dublin, Gibraltar and Malta). During the
Crimean War, however, these arrangements proved unequal to the task of equipping an army with speed
391:
they were given relative rank (for the purpose of allotting appropriate quarters): Storekeepers to rank as lieutenant colonel, Deputy
Storekeepers as major (if in independent charge) or else captain, Assistant Storekeepers as lieutenant and Clerks as a non-commissioned officer. The Storekeepers and
1535:
The full-dress uniform of the RAOC had evolved from that worn by the Field Train
Department in the eighteenth century, itself derived from the uniform of the Royal Artillery. Consisting of a blue tunic with red collar and cuffs and blue trousers with a double red stripe, it continued to be worn by
862:
On the
Western Front a highly successful logistic infrastructure, largely rail based, was created to support the front. Parallel systems, but of less complexity, supported operations in Italy. Other expeditions such as Gallipoli, Salonika, Palestine and Mesopotamia brought supply challenges and a
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of officers was maintained (at the headquarters in
Woolwich), but in time of war they were supplemented by recruits from the Ordnance Storekeeper's department to serve in the field; thus the strength of the Department varied dramatically, from 4 or 5 (during the peaceful years 1828-1853) to 346 at
1038:
A major task that fell to the RAOC in the wake of the war was disposal of ammunition. As well as disposing of large amounts of surplus stock from depots at home, and returning in good order sites that had been requisitioned for the duration of the war, RAOC units were heavily involved in clearing
280:
from the Middle Ages until they lost their independence in 1855. Thereafter followed thirty years of fluctuating allocation of responsibilities and a great variety of titles of both corps and individuals. This complex, convoluted and largely unsatisfactory period insofar as Army logistics was
783:
to take charge of all stores for all branches of the army: the first time an
Ordnance Storekeeper had been appointed in the field of battle. The following year, a memorandum was issued making it clear that, in future, a staff of Military Store officers, clerks, artificers and labourers should
664:, headquarters and home of the ordnance corps for the next fifty years. Finally, by about 1887, large stocks of small arms were moved from the Tower of London to Weedon, leaving the Tower to serve as a repository of ancient arms and armour and as a small Ordnance centre for troops in London.
620:, which for many centuries sufficed to hold the country's central stocks of artillery, gunpowder, small arms and ammunition albeit in unsatisfactory circumstances. The Tower continued to be used for storage into the 19th century, but in 1671 the Board of Ordnance acquired a parcel of land at
1039:
ammunition from
Germany's former depots and dealing with live devices still in the field. The RAOC's skills in bomb disposal were later put to increasing use in dealing with terrorist devices at home as well as in conflict zones overseas. The training of Ammunition Examiners,
1070:
In the period 1945–93 the RAOC, as with the rest of the Army, reduced greatly in size and closed its worldwide bases as garrisons withdrew. At the same time, there was considerable development of warehousing techniques and information technology (the first move towards
1905:
Major
General A Forbes 'A History of the Army Ordnance Services' Medici Society, London 1929. Vol II. p182 notes that the total strength of British forces of all types in the war 'did not fall far short of 450,000 while regular army strength never dropped below
500:
Between 1795 and 1815, the Field Train served in thirty expeditions and campaigns. In peacetime, the civilians and sergeants returned to their former duties, but the cadre of officers was retained; they were based initially in the Royal Arsenal, and then in the
1353:
Chief Ammunition Technical Officer (CATO), the senior ammunition officer in a large headquarters and was usually a lieutenant colonel, in a smaller headquarters the appointment was called Senior Ammunition Technical Officer (SATO) and usually held the rank of
980:
Forward of the UK base, a huge array of temporary depots were built to meet the rapidly changing pace of war. Base Ordnance Depots (BOD) and Base Ammunition Depots (BAD) sprung up all over the world wherever a major line of communication was established.
480:
With regard to the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers, the Field Train Department had additional responsibilities: it provided them with pay, clothing, medical supplies and camp equipment when deployed (while the Commissariat provided their food and
952:
In the 1930s virtually all the Army's stockpile of ammunition was held at Bramley, which was vulnerable to air attack, so three new Central Ammunition Depots (CAD) were built: Serving south, central and northern England respectively, these were
799:(1899-1902). All campaigns required the support of very large numbers of troops, animals and equipment in hostile environments. They produced a well-developed system of stores dumps and repair facilities along extended lines of communication.
1222:
Two post-war campaigns (Falklands 1982 and Gulf 1990/1) were unique in being fought in areas completely outside existing theatres. Temporary lines of communication were rapidly established that successfully managed huge surges in matériel.
1151:
Across the UK the structure of smaller Regional Depots, Ordnance Support Units (OSUs), Training Materiel Parks, supply depots and Ammunition Sub-Depots was steadily run down. A reconfiguration in the late 1960s provided four Regional Depots
586:
In 1918 the AOD and AOC amalgamated to form the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, and for the first time officers and soldiers served in the same organisation; the Corps received the "Royal" prefix in 1922 in recognition of its service during the
1920:
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and Didcot had closed in 1963 and Weedon in 1965 after being downgraded from a COD in 1957), two CADs at Kineton and Longtown (Nesscliffe had closed in 1959, Corsham in 1963 and Bramley in 1974) and three Central Vehicle Depots:
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Extract from a War Office Committee of 1888-9 on Ordnance matters, probably penned by General Sir William Butler; quoted in Major General A Forbes, 'A History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps' Vol II Medici Society London 1929,
636:, alongside the Grand Union Canal, to serve as a safe repository for guns and ammunition; and in 1813 a new Grand Storehouse was opened in the Royal Arsenal, containing multiple warehouses for all kinds of military stores. When
1095:
in the event of any future Middle East war with the Soviet Union, was to arrange the Canal Zone depot area to be taken over by specially arranged British civilian contractors. As the risk of British-Egyptian ruptures over the
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for fifteen months. Half of them were serving soldiers who were already qualified fitters. Armament Artificers had to be at least 22 years of age and could enlist up to 30; they enlisted for twelve years and were promoted to
375:, as did the Storekeepers, artificers and storemen. Though civilians, the Storekeepers were provided with uniform, akin to that of the Royal Artillery, described in 1833 as a blue coat with red stand-collar and cuffs, gold
784:
accompany troops at time of war to ensure abundant provision of equipment for immediate use together with effective maintenance of reserve stocks in the field. These arrangements were put into practice both in
701:
914:, opened in 1937. The operation of this depot was notable in that it mirrored and tried to improve on best civilian practice at the time; this became a hallmark of RAOC development in the following decades.
910:
In the 1930s re-armament and the mechanisation of the Army led to a redesign of the UK base. A Central Ordnance Depot (COD) and workshop to support vehicles, built on the site of the First World War
416:
as the main ordnance storage depot in the realm. In times of war, the Board of Ordnance Storekeepers found themselves responsible for conveying guns, ammunition and certain other items to the troops
549:(MSSC) to provide soldiers: initially 200-strong, it had more than doubled in size by 1869, with units in Portsmouth, Devonport, Aldershot, Dublin and Chatham as well as at Woolwich and the Tower.
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recruits; with National Service coming to an end the Barracks closed in 1962 (but not before serving again, temporarily, as the regimental depot from 1960-1962 while Deepcut was being rebuilt).
895:(ammunition), Pimlico (clothing), Woolwich (gun stores and ammunition) and Weedon (small arms). In 1922 the RAOC headquarters, regimental depot and School of Instruction moved from Woolwich to
2029:
Brigadier AH Fernyhough 'A History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1920-45' RAOC, Blackdown 1966 lists BODs in West Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia as well as France and Italy.
1916:
1031:, Middlesex; in 1955 it too moved to Deepcut. Hilsea, which had been used by the US Army during the war, continued to be used (alongside Deepcut) as a training facility for RAOC-enlisted
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which soon supplanted the Tower to become the Board's main ordnance storage depot; manufacture as well as storage of guns and ammunition took place on the site, which was later named the
1207:(that finally closed shortly before handover in 1997). The Middle East logistic base withdrew from Egypt in 1956 – 5 BOD and 9 BAD closing in 1955 – and was partially re-established in
831:
to be the major focus for the receipt and distribution of RAOC stores. Ammunition storage was also expanded dramatically and the former peacetime magazines at places such as Purfleet,
795:
There was substantial support by the RAOC's predecessors for every late Victorian expedition with the major efforts being the campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan (1882-5 and 1898) and the
497:). For the duration of conflict the Department's personnel accompanied the Artillery and Engineer units in the field providing them with logistic support (including repair facilities).
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and other general stores were transferred to Woolwich Dockyard from the Tower at this time. At the same time the Military Store Department moved its headquarters from the Tower to the
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its peak in 1813. Each recruit received special training in the handling of munitions. During the Crimean War a number of Sergeants were seconded from the Royal Artillery to serve as
2069:
1704:
560:. The officers remained a separate branch (Ordnance or Military Stores) in the Control Department but the soldiers were absorbed into the ASC. This arrangement lasted until 1876.
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on the edge of Portsmouth. (The School provided education and training in all aspects of the Corps' work, with the exception of ammunition which was taught at Bramley, where the
1539:
The RAOC Band had first been formed in 1922; the regimental march (chosen by its first Bandmaster, WOI R. T. Stevens, as appropriate to the Corps' role and to its artisans) was
529:(MSD) created in 1861 granted military commissions and provided officers to manage stores inventories. In parallel a subordinate corps of warrant officers and sergeants, the
448:. A Lieutenant-General of the Royal Artillery served as its Commandant and a Major-General as his Deputy, but otherwise its personnel were uniformed civilians: under a Senior
285:'The English Ordnance Department goes back into an older history than the Army. There were Master Generals of the Ordnance and Boards of Ordnance centuries before there were
2564:
2569:
1584:, before proceeding to specialist trade training. Armourers were only recruited from boy entrants and enlisted for twelve years. Armament Artificers trained at the
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Commander Royal Army Ordnance Corps (CRAOC), a lieutenant colonel - occasionally a colonel in UK districts - and senior RAOC officer in a two star headquarters.
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Canal Zone depots and workshops were handed over to the contractors. Among them were 2 Base Workshop, 5 Base Ordnance Depot, and the Base Vehicle Depot all at
2043:
193:
were in turn passed over to the RAOC. The RAOC retained repair responsibilities for ammunition, clothing and certain ranges of general stores. In 1964 the
2374:
Brigadier AH Fernyhough 'History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1920-45' RAOC. Blackdown, 1966. p. 361. Fernyhough gives the precise date of 23 October.
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elsewhere. In any case, modern distinctions between civilian and military personnel were not so clear cut for those serving under the Board: its officers,
240:
who, in mediaeval days, were responsible as Officers of Ordnance for the care and provision of warlike matériel, and to their successors the storekeepers,
2270:
1296:
2217:
2449:
2196:
256:
of the Board of Ordnance, the R.A.O.C. can claim a far longer continuous history and more ancient lineage than any other unit of the British Army'.
2559:
2124:
1287:− which during the 1920s became Director Ordnance Services (DOS). DOS was also a title given to senior RAOC officers at major commands such as
2065:
1700:
759:, was taken over by the AOD which then became responsible for the provision of uniforms and other items of clothing for much of the army.
1884:
533:(MSC), was also created to carry out clerical duties. These small corps (235 officers in the MSD and 44 MSC) were based largely at the
2479:
1327:
Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (ADOS), usually a lieutenant colonel's, but occasionally a colonel's, appointment on the staff.
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of 1977 the head of the corps was re-titled Director General Ordnance Services (DGOS). Following the huge expansion of the RAOC in the
973:. That same year a very large COD, widely spread out across the Oxfordshire countryside to mitigate the risk of bomb damage, opened at
996:
918:
was established in 1938, initially to serve as the Army's main clothing store, freeing up space at COD Didcot. At the outbreak of the
197:
resulted in the RAOC absorbing petroleum, rations and accommodation stores functions from the Royal Army Service Corps as well as the
2426:
1817:
985:
186:
502:
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Before 1942 the senior Ordnance Mechanical Engineer in a headquarters was designated Principal Ordnance Mechanical Engineer (POME).
911:
2005:
301:, the Commonwealth, the Restoration and the Revolution until it fell, at last, in the panic that followed in the disasters of the
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closed in 1869, the entire dockyard site was taken over by the War Office to become a vast ordnance stores complex, annexed (and
194:
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and other specialist equipment, and (until the formation of a separate Corps of Artillery Drivers) provided for the movement of
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establishment, though (as with much of the Board's activity) troops were involved in various aspects of its operation when not
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In 1870 a further reorganisation, ostensibly to simplify management, resulted in the MSD, MSC and MSSC being grouped with the
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2301:
2158:
2101:
2240:
1865:
945:, which provided 632,000 square feet of covered accommodation. A further COD to hold non-vehicle technical stores opened at
632:, replacing the Tower as Britain's central repository of gunpowder. In 1808 a modern purpose-built depot was constructed at
393:
1321:
1153:
1087:
599:
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875:
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Sua Tela Tonanti Lodge No 8003 under the United Grand Lodge of England - the Corps (and RLC) associated Freemason's lodge
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in 1860. The labourers and artificers were civilians, until the establishment of the Military Store Staff Corps in 1865.
1917:"A brief history of the Army in Didcot by David Taylor of Didcot & District Archaeological & Historical Society"
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Chief Ordnance Officer (COO) was a brigadiers' or colonels' appointment and was used as an alternative to DOS, e.g. COO
807:
704:(then British India and now Pakistan), the Indian Army Ordnance Corps (IAOC). In 1881 there were detachments in Dublin,
2459:
2250:
1272:, used the idiosyncratic system of staff titles that was unique to British and most Commonwealth armies. After 1981 in
887:
After the war there was considerable retrenchment. In the 1920s the RAOC's principal depots were Bramley (ammunition),
355:(who were not at that time part of the British Army). The Storekeeper's department, on the other hand, was part of the
56:
17:
2325:
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based at Woolwich were Commissaries, Assistant Commissaries, Clerks of Stores and Conductors of Stores (equivalent to
1585:
333:
2476:"The Royal Army Ordnance Corps Gazette, the journal of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and the Army Ornance Services"
2039:
1200:
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785:
545:, but were also deployable on active service. They were supplemented in 1865 by the establishment at Woolwich of a
474:
525:
In the years following the Crimean War three corps can be identified as the direct predecessors of the RAOC. The
1941:
Major General A Forbes 'A History of the Army Ordnance Services' Medici Society, London 1929. Vol III. pp192-217
812:
509:) where the guns were stored ready for deployment. At the start of the Crimean War, the Ordnance Field Train was
31:
1532:(literally "His Missiles to the one who is Thundering", but commonly translated as "To the Warrior his Arms").
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1083:
767:
372:
273:
2266:
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Supply and repair of technical equipment, principally artillery and small arms, was the responsibility of the
133:(literally "His Missiles to the one who is Thundering", but commonly translated as "To the Warrior his Arms")
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2213:
1803:
Major General A Forbes 'A History of the Army Ordnance Services' Medici Society, London 1929. Vol II pp 153-5
930:
2191:
1794:
Major General A Forbes 'A History of Army Ordnance Services', Medici Society, London 1929. Vol II pp 151-152
1621:
1060:
1044:
688:
667:
563:
The Control Department was disbanded in 1876. The Ordnance/Military Store officers joined a newly created
1847:
Major General A Forbes 'A History of the Army Ordnance Services' Medici Society, London 1929. Vol II. p155
1280:(BAOR), the standard NATO system was adopted with all appointments elsewhere changing the following year.
854:
1856:
Major General A Forbes 'A History of the Army Ordnance Services' Medici Society, London 1929. Vol II. p82
1838:
Major General A Forbes 'A History of the Army Ordnance Services' Medici Society, London 1929. Vol I. p192
1111:; and the engineering base group (probably including Nos 8 and 9 Engineer Stores Base Depots at Suez and
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Major General LTH Phelps 'A History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1945-1982' RAOC, Blackdown 1991. p4
779:) left the Army and joined the Ordnance department; From March that year until July 1856 he was sent to
1324:, this title was retained in DGOS after 1981 despite the fact that Supply was in general use elsewhere.
1315:
325:
286:
2117:
1277:
1048:
1032:
904:
900:
752:
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1492:
1334:
1236:
553:
318:
190:
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the senior RAOC major general was designated Controller Ordnance Services (COS) from 1942 to 1948
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from the same Corps. On 5 April 1993, the RAOC was one of the corps that amalgamated to form The
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and the sale of the old Dockyard). At the height of the Northern Ireland troubles Ordnance Depot
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1115:
respectively). Other establishments included 33 Supply Reserve Depot and 10 Base Ordnance Depot.
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1091:
816:
789:
680:
1063:; what was initially a 6-month deployment marked the start of a much longer involvement through
46:
1541:
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Deputy Director Ordnance Services (DDOS), usually a brigadiers' appointment, were found in the
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1145:
1125:
653:
245:
141:
1880:
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583:(AOC) and at the same time absorbed the Corps of Armourers and the RA's Armament Artificers.
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229:
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Brigade/District Ordnance Warrant Officer (B/DOWO) a warrant officer Class 1 - frequently a
1090:, signed on 19 October, with Great Britain. The agreement stipulated a phased evacuation of
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Ordnance Depot, dating from 1889 (one of a number of small depots established at that time).
1611:
1330:
Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (DADOS), a major's appointment on the staff.
1252:
1052:
1004:
954:
341:
210:
2422:
1813:
1184:, Thetford, Tidworth and Woolwich (which had been downgraded following the closure of the
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became progressively more specialised during the 1950s and '60s. In May 1970 a section of
8:
1288:
1283:
The senior RAOC appointment was Director Equipment and Ordnance Stores (DEOS) − always a
1244:
1240:
1173:
1000:
880:
737:
360:
314:
290:
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Corps Commander Royal Army Ordnance Corps (CCRAOC), a unique title for the brigadier in
696:. After the war an Ordnance station was established as part of the new training camp at
224:
in Britain; it has therefore been claimed that 'in a wide sense, as heirs to the master-
2066:"Central Ordnance Depot [COD] Bicester: computerisation; staffing implications"
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1161:
1157:
1133:
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938:
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697:
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In addition to these central depots, ordnance yards in the naval and garrison towns of
557:
514:
388:
364:
420:(whereas provision of food, supplies and other equipment was largely dependent on the
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2097:
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Brigade Ordnance Officer (BOO), an officer, usually a captain, attached to a brigade.
828:
637:
322:
298:
277:
198:
1439:
Major General Norman H Speller CB 9 November 1973 to 17 October 1976
1011:
During the war the RAOC HQ (together with the RAOC School) had moved from Hilsea to
2001:
1573:
1430:
Major General George le F Payne CB CBE 20 November 1964 to 18 March 1968
1427:
Major General Sir John C Hildreth KBE 22 April 1961 to 19 November 1964
1347:
1300:
1056:
1024:
1012:
941:, so from September 1939 the War Department leased part of an industrial estate in
919:
661:
469:
1511:
This is a list of directors of Supply Management of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps
969:, Cumbria. By 1942 more storage capacity was required and another CAD was opened:
428:). Until 1792, the transport and issue of weapons and ammunition to troops in the
387:; Clerks on the establishment wore the same uniform but without epaulettes. After
2200:
1985:
1577:
1458:
Major General William L Whalley CB 12 March 1983 to September 1985
1442:
Major General Michael Callan 18 October 1976 to 3 April 1977
1436:
Major General Leonard TH Phelps CB OBE 9 April 1971 to 8 November 1973
1365:
1361:
1292:
1248:
896:
824:
796:
745:
617:
613:
576:
567:(OSD). Five years later, in 1881, the soldiers also left the ASC and became the
534:
506:
490:
433:
417:
413:
352:
348:
337:
217:
1785:
HED Harris ' the First Five Hundred Years', RAOC School, Blackdown 1962. pp65-67
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Major General James Brown CB 15 March 1980 to 11 March 1983
1424:
Major General George O Crawford CB CBE 22 April 1958 to 21 April 1961
1421:
Major General Sir Lionel Cutforth KBE CB 22 April 1955 to 21 April 1958
1418:
Major General Sir Neville Swiney KBE CB MC 21 April 1951 to 21 April 1955
1415:
Major General Gerald TW Horne CB CBE 21 April 1948 to 20 April 1951
1409:
Major General KM Body CB CMG OBE 1 January 1941 to 27 June 1942
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held for only one year until the appointment was retitled Comd Sup 1 (Br) Corps.
264:
2329:
1594:
1433:
Major General Alexander Young CB 19 March 1968 to 8 April 1971
1412:
Major General William W Richards CB CBE MC 18 July 1947 to 20 April 1948
1406:
Major General LH Williams MC 23 April 1940 to 27 June 1942
1268:
Prior to 1981/82 the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, in common with the rest of the
962:
946:
915:
741:
684:
644:) to the ordnance stores in the Royal Arsenal; large stocks of barrack stores,
486:
457:
429:
397:
84:
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1983:
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Major General Gerald B Berragan CB September 1985 to March 1988
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2311:
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To The Warrior His Arms: the story of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1918-1993
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Major General Michael Callan CB 4 Apr 1977 to 14 March 1980
1165:
1016:
892:
649:
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625:
538:
409:
340:
at left, used by the Ordnance Stores Department and its successors since the
294:
221:
120:
1553:
1467:
Major General David FE Botting CB CBE July 1990 to 4 April 1993
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Major General Sir Leslie Williams KBE CB MC (28 June 1942 to 20 April 1946)
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1104:
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974:
966:
840:
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1990:. Blackdown: Royal Army Ordnance Corps. p. 59.
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History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 1920-1945
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Somerville Logistic Reorganisation Committee Report
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2296:. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Books.
1655:The History of the Army Ordnance Services, vol. II
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2328:. The Royal Logistic Corps Museum. Archived from
1971:History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps1920-1945
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2096:. London: I.B. Tauris. p. 112.
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1969:Fernyhough, Brigadier A. H. (1967).
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2478:. Imperial War Museum.
2454:. Osprey. p. 110.
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2397:. Blackdown. p. 9.
2173:Treaty text, p. 50, 54.
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