The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army. 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.

Royal Army Ordnance Corps. The Ordnance Corps was the body charged with supplying weapons, ammunition and equipment to the British Army. It had a long and complex history, ultimately originating in two corps, one for officers and the second for other ranks.

During the Second World War the RAOC expanded rapidly from a few hundred officers and a few thousand men to 8,000 officers and 130,000 men in the space of four years. In 1965 the RAOC incorporated the supply functions of the RASC.

The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a Corps of the British Army. Until 1942 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 Royal Army Ordnance Corps was that part of the British Army responsible for equipping units and supplying everything the Army needed in peace and war until 1993 when it became one of the Corps forming a major part of the new Royal Logistic Corps (RLC).

2010年2月14日 · The role of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps & its predecessors has been the procurement, storage and issue of armaments, ammunition and warlike materiel. In 1285 the Tower of London became the first ordnance depot comprising an armoury of body armour & weaponry, under the control of the Master of the King’s Wardrobe.

The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (R.A.O.C.) was the branch of the British Army responsible for the procurement, storage and issue of materiel classified as ‘Ordnance Stores’. Likewise, in the Indian Army, the Indian Army Ordnance Corps (I.A.O.C.) performed the same function.

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 …

The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army. When it was renamed in 1918 it became a Royal Corps and 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 ...

The Royal Army Ordnance Corps – a background history The long and complex history of RAOC stretches back to at least 1299 when the Keeper of the Kings Wardrobe in the Tower of London was given responsibility for Warlike Equipment and Military Expenditure.