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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.

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  • St. George's Town, from Barrack Hill

    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

  • Greenwich Heritage Centre, Woolwich - RA & RMA exhibition 26 (cropped)

    Red Barracks, Woolwich

  • Selby, Old MOD Ordnance Depot - geograph.org.uk - 159590

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

  • The Second Anglo - Boer War, South Africa 1899 - 1902 Q72044

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

  • NLS Haig - Repairing one of our guns for use in the continued advance

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

  • The British Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918 Q10020

    Inside a Base Supply Depot at Vendroux, 1917.

  • RAOC (Royal Army Ordnance Corps)-ZKlugerPhotos-00132i9-0907170685125d0c

    RAOC station in Palestine, 1941.

  • Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) women working on a Churchill tank at a Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot, 10 October 1942. H24517

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

  • Wheelbarrow bomb disposal device being operated by a team from 321 EOD MOD 45159057

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

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