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8 unusual facts about Royal Army Service Corps


Cecil FitzMaurice, 8th Earl of Orkney

He joined the Royal Army Service Corps on the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and served in North Africa, Italy, France and Germany.

Convoys Wharf

The Foreign Cattle Market was taken over by the War Department in 1914, on a tenancy agreement from the City of London Corporation, for use as the Royal Army Service Corps Supply Reserve Depot.

Geoffrey Lupton

Early in 1915 he joined up as a Private serving in the Army Service Corps, ASC, “Ally Sloper's Cavalry”, 3rd Heavy Repair Depot in A.S.C. Motor Transport and became later Captain.

Leonard Crossland

He joined Ford in 1937 and worked in the purchasing function until 1939 before leaving to join the British Royal Army Service Corps between 1939 and 1945: these were, for Britain, the years of the Second World War.

RAF Burn

Shortly after flying was discontinued, the Royal Army Service Corps took over some facilities to store surplus equipment.

Round Table-class landing ship logistics

The ships were operated and managed by the British-India Steam Navigation Company for the Royal Army Service Corps until January 1970, then were transferred to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

Sans Pareil

This loco was built by the North British Locomotive Company at Glasgow in September 1927 and withdrawn in October 1963 as 46126 Royal Army Service Corps.

Wilfred Hutton

Hutton was a former British Army officer (he had been commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps in March 1941), and one man believed that this must make him an MI6 agent and planned to assassinate him.


Army Apprentices School, Harrogate

Royal Army Service Corps – Clerks (two year course) (Moved elsewhere in late 1955—certainly by 1970 the Royal Army Ordnance Corps were training All Arms Clerks in their Depot at Deepcut, Camberley, Surrey)

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

In 1964 the McLeod Reorganisation of Army Logistics resulted in the RAOC absorbing petroleum, rations and accommodation stores functions from the Royal Army Service Corps as well as the Army Fire Service, barrack services, sponsorship of NAAFI (EFI) and the management of staff clerks from the same Corps.

In 1942 the latter function was transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and the vehicle storage and spares responsibilities of the Royal Army Service Corps were in turn passed over to the RAOC.

Royal Corps of Transport

The Royal Corps of Transport (RCT) was a British Army Corps formed in 1965 from the transport (land, water and air) elements of the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) and the movement control element of the Royal Engineers (RE).


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