British army combat service support Pre options for change

[dude_uk]

Morning all

Got a request if any one can help me with it. I'm having trouble finding a complete ORBAT for all the combat service support arms of the British army.

My attempts to find this information out having met a brick wall. Most books give the names of the units but no specific information on numbers or regiment strength.

Its A very strange course of events when books quite happily give information how many battalions the infantry have, but are unwilling to tell me how many regiments the Royal corps of transport have! I know more about the SAS at the time than the Royal ordnance corps.

So can anyone help guide me to website or give a book title for the details about their role in BOAR and a complete ORBAT for them. The units requested are.

Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Royal Corps of Transport
Royal Army Service Corps
Royal military police
Army catering corps.


Thanks again!

[pmulcahy11b]

The British Army has a Catering Corps!!!???

[TiggerCCW UK]

We used to Post 'Options for change' they are now part of the Royal Logistics Corps.

[perardua]

And now it's time for that tired old joke:
The British Army cook's course is the hardest in the world, none of them have passed it yet.

I thank you.

[pmulcahy11b]

I've always wondered: if it's the "Royal Navy" and the "Royal Air Force" and the "Royal Marines," why don't the British call it the "Royal Army"? Has the royalty got something against the Army?

[TiggerCCW UK]

Some individual regiments have the 'Royal' prefix in their names (Royal Artillery, Royal Dragoons, Royal Irish etc) but the army as a whole is not classed as Royal due to some units siding against the Royallists in the civil war, iirc.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by perardua

And now it's time for that tired old joke:
The British Army cook's course is the hardest in the world, none of them have passed it yet.

I thank you.

Author! Author! (A tired old US joke that's short for "Get the Author!")

[Ironside]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

The British Army has a Catering Corps!!!???

Royal Army Catering Corp aka Royal Aldershot Cement Company

[Ramjam]

Ok where to start......?

Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Royal Corps of Transport and the Army Catering Corps sadly no longer exist. They were clubbed together in 1993 into the Royal Logistics Corps along with the Royal Pioneer Corps.

Their main task now is to provide logistic support for the Army.

In english they provide everything that allows the army to move, live and fight in a modern war.

Some of their other duties include sorting the army mail (29 Postal Courier and Movement Regiment RLC), EOD work (11 EOD Regiment RLC) and running the Army's only ships and railways (17 Port and Maritime Regiment (includes 79 Railway Squadron RLC).

Currently there are 24 Regts and 7 Ind Sqdrs in the regular army and a extra 17 Regts in the TA.

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Royal Army Service Corps was merged into the RCT and ROAC in 1965 (and these were merged in the RLC in 93).

[Abbott Shaull]

One has to remember back in the day when Officers could buy their rank, all a Colonel of Regiment not only purchased the title of the office. They had to recruit the troops and equip said troops, part of the reason why Colonels were so willing to sell appointments to Lt, Captain, Major and so within their Regiment too.

In the US similar thing happen up to the US-Spanish War depending on the emergency that the US found itself in. At the start of the Civil War many of the local state raised Regiments either from militia or newly raised organization joined the Army with Officer who were elected from the ranks at company level. In other cases if a person had the wealth or could organize such an undertaking would raise a Regiment and enter service as it Colonel. Of course many of these Officers didn't last too long once their Regiment entered battle. The lucky ones never seen the battlefield.