Royal Army Ordnance Corps facts for kids

Army Ordnance Corps Cap Badge (pre-First World War)

The Royal Army Ordnance Corps was a corps of the British Army. It dealt only with the supply and maintenance of weaponry, munitions and other military equipment until 1965, when it took over most other supply functions, as well as the provision of staff clerks, from the Royal Army Service Corps.

Images for kids

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  St. George's Town in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda, seen from Barrack Hill, in 1857, with Ordnance Island at left, used by the Ordnance Stores Department and its successors since the American War of 1812

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  Red Barracks, Woolwich

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  The former Barlby Ordnance Depot, dating from 1889 (one of a number of small depots established at that time).

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  British Army logistics in the Boer War: mule train, 1899.

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  Soldiers of the AOC repairing an 8-inch howitzer at Passchendaele, 1917.

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  Inside a Base Supply Depot at Vendroux, 1917.

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  RAOC station in Palestine, 1941.

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  Women of the ATS working on a Churchill tank at an RAOC depot, 1942.

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  Wheelbarrow bomb disposal device being operated by a team from 321 EOD Coy RAOC, Northern Ireland 1978.