ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS (RAOC) CAP BADGE

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 Royal Army Ordnance Corps Cap Badge 

This Sale is for the Cap Badge as formerly worn by the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC).

Very rare 'Brand New' and unissued staybrite/anodised Cap Badge in Gold and Silver finish, approx. 42mm high, complete with it's mounted slider and made by Firmin (London).

 Guaranteed brand new and in mint condition.

 

Brief Corps History

One of the oldest military motifs is the badge of the Arms of the Board Ordnance and this is appropriately borne by the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. The brass shield with its three guns and three balls was worn by the old AOC during the First World War but when the Corps was awarded the Royal title  for its 1914-8 services, a more elaborate badge was designed with the shield in the centre of the Garter, King's crown above and the scrolls below, still in brass.

In March 1947 the same basic pattern badge was kept but the scrolls carried instead the motto 'Sua Tela Tonanti' (Thundering forth his weapons (Said of Jupiter)). This was worn until November 1949 when the badge was reduced in size and the central shield was in white metal. The King's crown dropped to rest on the lower edge of the Garter , but was in only in use for a short time before a Queen's crow n issue replaced it. The motto describes Jupiter and denotes the Corps' duties , the supply of stores, arms and ammunition to the fighting arms. 

Under 'Options for Change' in 1991 they were merged with the Royal Corps of Transport (RCT ); Royal Pioneer Corps (RPC ); Army Catering Corps (ACC ); Postal and Courier Services (RE ) to form the new Corps The Royal Logistic Corps (RLC ). The new Corps Badge features elements of each of the former Corps in its design.

 

RAOC

The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a former 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.

 

Predecessors of the RAOC

Supply and repair of technical equipment, principally artillery and small arms, was the responsibility of the Master General of the Ordnance (MGO ) and the Board of Ordnance from the Middle Ages until they lost their independence in 1855. Thereafter followed thirty years of fluctuating allocation of responsibilities and a great variety of titles of both corps and individuals . This complex, convoluted and largely unsatisfactory period insofar as Army logistics was concerned was summarised in 1889 as follows: 'The English Ordnance Department goes back into an older history than the Army . There were Master Generals of the Ordnance and Boards of Ordnance centuries before there were Secretaries of State for War or Commanders-in-Chief . Begun under the Tudors the Board of Ordnance lived through the changes of the Great Rebellion, the Commonwealth , the Restoration and the Revolution until it fell, at last, in the panic that followed in the disasters of the Crimean War . ...the many alterations in administration that followed the abolition of the Board of Ordnance , through the last 30 years, can only be read as a negative evidence in favour of the organisation, and as positive proof that the machinery of effective Army Store administration has yet to be evolved from its ruins.'

In the years following the Crimean War three Corps can be identified as the direct predecessors of the RAOC . The Military Store Department (MSD ) created in 1861 granted military commissions and provided Officers to manage stores inventories. In parallel a subordinate corps of Warrant Officers and Sergeants, the Military Store Clerks Corps (MSC ), was also created to carry out clerical duties. These small Corp s (235 officers in the MSD and 44 MSC ) based largely at the Tower, Red Barracks, Woolwich and Weedon were supplemented in 1865 by a Military Store Staff Corps (MSSC ) to provide soldiers.

In 1870 a further reorganisation, ostensibly to simplify management, resulted in the MSD , MSC and MSSC being grouped with the Army Service Corps (ASC ) under the Control Department . The officers remained a separate branch (Ordnance or Military Stores) in the Control Department but the soldiers were absorbed into the ASC . This arrangement lasted until 1876.

The Control Department was disbanded in 1876. The Ordnance /Military Store officers joined a newly created Ordnance Stores Department (OSD ). Five years later, in 1881, the soldiers also left the ASC and became the Ordnance Store Corps (OSC ). In 1894 there were further changes. The OSD was retitled the Army Ordnance Department (AOD ) and absorbed the Inspectors of Machinery from the Royal Artillery (RA ). In parallel the OSC was retitled the Army Ordnance Corps (AOC ) and at the same time absorbed the Corps of Armourers and the RA's Armament Artificers .

In 1918 the AOD and AOC amalgamated to form the Royal Army Ordnance Corps , receiving the "Royal " prefix for their service during World War I , and for the first time officers and soldiers served in the same organisation.

At its formation 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. The RAOC was also responsible for a major element of the repair of Army equipment . 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 . The RAOC retained repair responsibilities for ammunition, clothing and certain ranges of general stores. 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 . 

Ordnance Services Organisation before 1914

The RAOC and its predecessors were organised in two broad divisions : a static organisation of depots and other installations and field units that provided close support to operations. From the Second World War onwards there was increasing pressure to increase mobility on operations of stock holding units.

The earliest depot for military stores was the Tower of London which for many centuries sufficed to hold the Army's stock of artillery, small arms and ammunition albeit in unsatisfactory circumstances. The first modern depot to store weapons was constructed alongside the Grand Union Canal at Weedon in 1808.

After the Crimean War the main storage depot , and home of the RAOC and its predecessors , became the Red Fort at Woolwich . To this was added the Royal Army Clothing Department at Pimlico when it was taken over by the AOD in 1895. During the period from the 1860s to1914, in addition to a new depot for mobilisation in Aldershot , various depots were established to support the Army throughout the world (with the notable exception of India where the Indian Army managed its own parallel organisation, the Indian Army Ordnance Corps ( IAOC ). In 1881 there were detachments in Dublin, Jersey, Gibralter, Malta, Bermuda, Canada, St Helena, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius and Straits Settlements. There was also a substantial detachment supporting the Zulu Wa r in Natal . Thereafter there was substantial support by the RAOC's predecessors to every late Victorian expedition with the major efforts being the two campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan (1882-5 and 1898) and the Boer Wa r (1899-1902). Both campaigns required the support of very large numbers of troops, animals and equipment in hostile environments. They produced a well-developed system of stores dumps and repair facilities along extended lines-of-communication. The two decades before the First World War saw the increasing mechanization of the Army but this was largely undertaken on a piecemeal basis. The ordnance role largely remained confined to artillery with the ASC leading the way with vehicles and the RE with aviation and communications . Much of the story of the next hundred years of Army logistics is the reorganization and steady rationalization of these and other technical changes.

RAOC and the First World War As with the rest of the British Army the AOD /AOC was transformed by the First World War . Both the sheer scale of the war and the increasing technical complexity created an organisational structure that, in its outlines, survives until today. The depots at Woolwich , Weedon and Pimlico were supplemented by the wholesale takeover of warehouses throughout the country and in early 1915 a depot was established at Didcot to be the major focus for the receipt and distribution of RAOC stores . Ammunition storage was also expanded dramatically and the former peacetime magazines at places such as Portsmouth and Plymouth were supplementd by purpose built depots at Bramley , Altrincham , Credenhill and Didcot . On the Western Front a highly successful logistic infrastructure, largely rail based, was created to support the front. Parallel systems, but of less complexity, supported operations in Italy . Other expeditions such as Gallipoli /Salonika , Palestine and Mesopotamia brought supply challenges and a large logistic bases were established on the Egyptian Canal Zone and Basra .

 

RAOC from 1920 to the End of World War II

After the war there was considerable retrenchment, but in the 1930s re-armament and the mechanisation of the Army led to a redesign of the UK base . A Central Ordnance Depot (COD ) and workshop to support vehicles, built on the site of the First World War National Shell Filling Factory , Chilwell , opened in 1937. The operation of this depot was notable in that it mirrored and tried to improve on best civilian practice at the time. This became a hallmark of RAOC development in the following decades. A further COD at Donnington to hold non-vehicle technical stores opened in 1940. This removed from Woolwich to a less vulnerable site in Shropshire a range of critical items. Finally in 1942 a very large COD , widely spread out across the Oxfordshire countryside to mitigate the risk of bomb damage, opened at Bicester to hold stores principally to support the invasion of France . Additionally purpose built vehicle depots for both tracked and wheeled vehicles were opened across the country and Central Ammunition Depots (CAD ), including Kineton and Longtown were built.

Forward of the UK base a huge array of temporary depots were built to meet the rapidly changing pace of war . Base Ordnance Depots (BOD ) and Base Ammunition Depots (BAD ) sprung up all over the world wherever a major line of communication was established. Major changes took place after 1942 when the REME absorbed most of the RAOC repair functions and the RAOC in turn took over the RASC's vehicle organisation . The more mobile nature of the Second World War also led to the creation of units at divisional and corps level with higher levels of mobility. The most notable of these was the ordnance field park principally carrying vehicle and technical stores spares.

 

RAOC Post-war to 1993

In the period 1945-93 the RAOC , as with the rest of the Army , reduced very substantially in size and closed its world wide bases as garrisons withdrew. At the same time there was considerable development of warehousing techniques and information technology. By 1980 the RAOC was reduced to two CODs at Bicester and Donnington (COD Chilwell was closing and CODs Branston and Didcot had closed in 1963 and Weedon in 1965 after being downgraded from a COD in 1957), two CADs at Kineton and Longtown (CAD Bramley closed in 1974) and a single Central Vehicle Depot (Now retitled Central Vehicle Organisation ) at Ashchurch (CVDs Hilton and Ludgershall having closed in the late seventies).

Across the UK a structure of Regional Depots , Ordnance Support Units , Training Materiel Parks , supply depots and Ammunition Sub-Depots was steadily run down. At the height of the Northern Ireland troubles Ord Dep Kinnegar was a major logistic facilty but is now much reduced.

Overseas 3 BOD in Singapore closed in 1972 leaving a Composite Ordnance Depot in Hong Kong (that finally closed shortly before handover in 1997). The Middle East logistic base withdrew from Egypt in 1956 - 5 BOD and 9 BAD closing in 1955 - and was partially re-established in Aden . In turn this closed in 1967 with facilities being established in Sharjah and Bahrein . These, in turn, closed in 1971. The Ordnance Depot in Cyprus became part of the Joint Logistic Unit in 1988. In Germany 15 BOD and 3 Base Ammunition and Petrol Depot (BAPD ) closed in 1992. Smaller successor units , including one at Antwerp , remain.

Two post war campaigns (Falklands 1982 and Gulf 1990/1) were unique in being fought in areas completely outside existing theatres. Temporary lines of communication were rapidly established that successfully managed huge surges in materiel. Increasingly these operations had a joint Service element.

 

Organisation

The RAOC was organised into companies . Although they were not formally organised into a Battalion, the RAOC units of a Division were collected under a Headquarters and a Commander known as the Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (DADOS). Officers with the designations of Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (ADOS) and Deputy Director of Ordnance Services (DDOS) served at corps level and above. The Director of Ordnance Services (DOS), a Major-General, was the head of ordnance at the War Office in London. After World War II , RAOC companies were formally collected into battalions .

Until 1920 the AOC and later RAOC, in common only with the Royal Engineers, maintained a rank of Second Corporal.

Regimental Matters

The RAOC's motto was Sua tela tonanti (literally "His [i.e. Jupiter's] Missiles Thundering", but commonly translated as "To the Warrior his Arms").

'The RAOC Gazette The requirement for a Corps journal was first mooted at Woolwich in the 1880s, and begun in 1896 with hectographs . These were created and sent to South Africa during the Boer War 1900-1901. The first Editor was Lt Leon du Plergny , formerly a Conductor and known as the "Plug " by his clerks. The first printed edition was published in 1906 and continued uninterrupted until 1914. It was published post-war from 1920 until 1993 as a monthly magazine.

The RAOC Gazette is still published every 6 months as a Membership Newsletter of the RAOC Association , and as a sub-section of'The Sustainer , House journal of The Royal Logistic Corps . The latter is quarterly magazine published as the Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer editions.

 

Recruiting

Before the Second World War , RAOC recruits were required to be at least 5 feet 2 inches tall (5 feet 4 inches for Driver Mechanics ) and could enlist up to 25 years of age. They initially enlisted for three years with the colours and a further nine years with the reserve . Fitters could also choose six years with the colours and six years in the reserve , or eight and four years . Clerks and Storemen enlisted for six years and six years . They trained at the RAOC Depot, Hilsea Barracks, Portsmouth, before proceedings to specialist trade training. Armourers were only recruited from boy entrants and enlisted for twelve years . Armament Artificers trained at the Military College of Science, Woolwich for fifteen months. Half of them were serving soldiers who were already qualified fitters. Armament Artificers had to be at least 22 years of age and could enlist up to 30; they enlisted for twelve years and were promoted Staff Sergeant as soon as they had completed training.

 

Notable personnel

• Sir Robert "Bobby" Charlton CBE.                                                                                                                                              English former Football player and an essential member of the England team who won the World Cup and also won the Ballon d'Or for European Footballer of the Year in 1966. He played almost all of his club football at Manchester United . And is a member of Manchester United's board of Directors .
• Brian Horace Clemens OBE , a British Screenwriter and Television Producer. He was a weapons training instructor in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps serving his National Service in the British Army at Aldershot.
• Christopher George Arthur Collier was an English cricketer. During World War I he served as a staff Sergeant in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and was killed in action in the Battle of the Somme near Mametz, France two days after his 30th birthday. †
• Sir Henry Cooper OBE KSG was an English heavyweight boxer known for the effectiveness of his left hook, "Enry's 'Ammer ", and his knockdown of the young Muhammad Ali .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Henry Cooper held the British , Commonwealth and European heavyweight titles several times throughout his career, and unsuccessfully challenged Ali for the World Heavyweight championship in 1966.Following his retirement from the sport, Cooper continued his career as a television and radio personality and was enormously popular in Britain: he was the first (and is today one of just three people) to twice win the public vote for BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award and is thus far the only boxer to be awarded a Knighthood . Henry served his National Service in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps where he was recruited for his boxing ability. †
• Sir John Albert Dellow CBE is a retired British Police Officer , who did his National Service in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps , working in personnel selection . He was promoted to Deputy Commissioner , holding the post until his retirement in 1991. He was vice-President of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO ) from 1988 to 1989 and President from 1989 to 1990
• Peter John Dennis was a Screen Actors Guild Award and Drama-Logue Award winning English film, television, theatre and voice actor.  Called up for his National Service in the British Army , he served as a Sergeant in Nigeria from January 1952 to March 1958, Royal Army Ordnance Corps , Royal Army Service Corps . His duties included drill and weapons training, shorthand writing. †
• Frank Percy Doel was an antiquarian bookseller for Marks & Co in London, England. During the Second World War he served as a Private in the RAOC in the Middle East. †
• Duncan Edwards - English footballer who played for Manchester United and the England National team .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          He was one of the Busby Babes, the young United team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid-1950s, and one of eight players who died as a result of the Munich Air Disaster. He did his two-year National Service stint in the British Army with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps . He was stationed at Nesscliffe near Shrewsbury along with team-mate Bobby Charlton. †
• Captain Roger Philip Goad , GC , BEM , was an explosives officer with London 's Metropolitan Police Service who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the heroism he displayed on 29 August 1975. He had previously been awarded the British Empire Medal in 1958 for gallantry whilst serving with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Cyprus , for repeated acts of deliberate courage in the disarming of bombs and booby traps set by terrorists. †
• Peter James "G" Grant was an English music manager. He m anaged the popular English bands the Yardbirds , Led Zeppelin and Bad Company , among others, and was also a record executive for Swan Song Records . He was called up for National Service in the RAOC , reaching the rank of Corporal . †
• Percy Herbert was an English character actor one of the most recognisable faces in post war British cinema .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                He served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps during the Second World War and spent four years in the notorious Japanese prisoner of war camp Changi . †
• Harry Reed Hooper was an English professional footballer. Following the outbreak of World War II he joined the Royal Army Ordnance Corps . In October 1957, he was appointed manager of Halifax Town , and spent almost five seasons in charge of the club before leaving in April 1962.
• Kenneth Robert Howorth , GM , was a British explosives officer with London's Metropolitan Police Service who was killed whilst attempting to defuse a bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Oxford Street .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Kenneth served for twenty-three years with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC ) with postings to Austria, Japan, Tripoli in Libya, Stonecutters Island in Hong Kong and various United Kingdom bases. He reached the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1 before leaving to join the Metropolitan Police Service as a civilian explosives officer in 1973. †
• William Dennis Goodchild Hunt MBE - served a full career in the British Army as an Ammunition Technician (AT ) and Ammunition Technical Officer (ATO ) and served in the UK (including Northern Ireland), mainland Europe as well as the Middle and Far East.

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Appointments in the RAOC  

 

• Kenneth Alfred Biggs GC of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps was awarded the George Cross (GC ) for gallantry in his actions in rescuing people from an ammunition train on the 2 January 1946 in Savernake Forest , Wiltshire , and preventing a major explosion.  †

• Major William Davidson Bissett VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces . Bissett was 25 years old, and a lieutenant in the 1 /6th Battalion , The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's ), British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC . On 25 October 1918 east of Maing, France, Lieutenant Bissett was commanding a platoon, but owing to casualties took command of the company and handled it with great skill when an enemy counter-attack turned his left flank. Realising the danger he withdrew to the railway, but the enemy continued to advance and when the ammunition was exhausted Lieutenant Bissett mounted the railway embankment under heavy fire and, calling for a bayonet charge, drove back the enemy with heavy loss and again charged forward, establishing the line and saving a critical situation.

He also served with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and Royal Pioneer Corps in World War II and achieved the rank of Major. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum in Stirling Castle, Scotland. †

• Arthur James Cain FRS was a British evolutionary biologist and ecologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989. Cain was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (engineering ) and was later transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (R .E .M .E .) on its formation. He was promoted to Captain in 1942. †
• William Gibson Haig Clark , Baron Clark of Kempston , PC was a British Conservative Party politician. From 1941 to 1946 he served in World War II in Britain and India in the Royal Ordnance Corps , gaining the rank of major.  †

• Brigadier Terence Hugh Clarke , CBE was a British army officer and politician. At the age of twenty he was commissioned into the Gloucestershire Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant. He served in India and China for seven years in the Indian Army Ordnance Corps before returning to Britain . He was a member of the Army's Rugby team and also boxed as a heavyweight for the Army . He transferred into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in 1933. During the Second World War Clarke served in Norway in 1940 where he was mentioned in dispatches . Later he had a key role in planning the logistical support for the Allied campaign in North Africa (he won the CBE in 1943), and then the invasion in Normandy . Clarke landed in Normandy and followed the campaign up to Lüneberg Heath (Lündeberge Heide ) where he made arrangements to accept the surrender of more than a million Germany soldiers to Montgomery on 4 May 1945. After the war , Clarke was a Liberal Party candidate in Pudsey and Otley at the 1945 general election . He then returned to the Army ; Clarke commanded the RAOC Training Centre and then became Deputy Director of Ordnance Services for the Southern Command . In 1950 Clarke left the Army to go into industry.†

• Lieutenant Colonel Edward Southwell Russell , 26th Baron de Clifford , OBE , TD . He was the last pee r to be tried for a crime in the House of Lords . In 1926 he was commissioned into the 21st ( Royal Gloucestershire Hussars ) Armoured Car Company of the Territorial Army ; he was promoted Lieutenant in 1929 and Captain in 1938. His hobby was racing cars, and he was a young supporter of fascist Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists . Following his trial in the House of Lords , Russell gave up racing cars. He transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in 1942 and the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in 1943. In 1946, having reached the rank of lieutenant colonel, he joined the R egular Army .†

• Major General Timothy Cross , CBE (born 19 April 1951) is a retired British Army officer and military logistics expert. He was commissioned in 1971 into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps . Cross was given the honorary title of Colonel Commandant , Royal Logistic Corps on 5 April 2003. On 9 October 2004, he was appointed General Officer Commanding, Theatre Troops , Iraq —commander of all British Army combat personnel in the Iraq War . He retired from active service on 20 January 2007, retaining the honorary title of Colonel Commandant , Royal Logistic Corps and, in April 2007, was given the further ceremonial appointment of Honorary Colonel , 168 Pioneer Regiment (Volunteers ), Royal Logistic Corps .

• Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin CBE JP a grandson of the British naturalist Charles Darwin , was a golf writer and high-standard amateur golfer. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame . During the First World War he served with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Macedonia as a lieutenant. †

• Sydney Charles Houghton "Sammy" Davis was a British racing motorist, journalist and clubman.At the start of the First World War he joined the Royal Naval Air Service and served in France with armoured car section .Following his demobilisation he became sports editor of The Autocar although he also served in the Second World War in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers .†

• Brigadier Charles Esmond de Wolff CB CBE was a British Army officer. De Wolff was commissioned second lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment (Territorial Force ) in 1914 and served throughout the First World War . He transferred to the Army Ordnance Department (later the Royal Army Ordnance Corps ) as a temporary lieutenant in August 1915 and was promoted acting captain in October 1916. He served with the British Salonika Force in 1918, for which he was mentioned in despatches in November 1918 and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in January 1919, by which time he was a temporary captain and acting major.

  In 1919 he was appointed Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (ADOS ) in South Russia during the Russian Civil War and was promoted acting lieutenant-colonel in February 1919. For his service in this campaign he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE ) in November 1919. He also received the Russian Order of St Vladimir .

  In March 1939 after relinquishing the appointment of ADOS Malta he was selected as the project officer to set up Central Ordnance Depot Donnington (COD Donnington ). This was a major new depot established to manage and hold the Army's technical and warlike stores (weapons, communications, radar, engineer items and similar items) near Telford, Shropshire. It not only reflected the need to create a depot to support a vital stores range of the rapidly mechanising Army but also to replace inadequate and vulnerable storage in Woolwich . After a short sojourn in France as an ADOS at General Headquarters he returned in November 1939 and was promoted colonel and ordnance officer 1st class in the same month. His drive and experience grew the depot from a greenfield site in 1939. During 1940 the depot was established and at the end of the year de Wolff was appointed commandan t and garrison commander with the rank of brigadier. During 1941 and 1942 the depot increased significantly in size and at the end of 1941, 9,600 all ranks worked on the site. He also convinced Wellington District Council to build housing for the civilian staff, many of whom had moved from Woolwich . Eventually 1,500 houses were built outside the COD . He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB ) in the 1945 New Year Honours and retired in July 1946 with the honorary rank of brigadier .†

• Brigadier William Marsden Eastman GC , known as Bill Eastman ,was a British Army officer who was awarded the George Cross for bomb disposal work between June and November 1940 on the island of Malta . His knowledge of chemicals learned through this career led to him being recommended for a commission in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps on volunteering shortly before the outbreak of hostilities. Having then attended the Inspecting Ordnance Officer’s course at Bramley , he was embarked for Malta in March 1940. Between June and November 1940 the island of Malta came under the combined attack from German and Italian airforces . As no Royal Engineer Bomb Disposal units had yet been formed, the job of attending to unexploded bombs and mines was handled by the Royal Army Ordnance Corps . A high number of unexploded bombs needed defusing and Eastman, along with Robert Jephson Jones rendered safe some 275 devices with rudimentary equipment.

  George Cross citation

  Notice of his award appeared in the London Gazette on Christmas Eve, 1940.

  On various dates Lieutenant Eastman , with Captain R. L. J. Jones , R .A .O .C ., worked under dangerous and trying conditions and performed acts of considerable gallantry in dealing with large numbers of various unexploded bombs, some of which were in a highly dangerous state and of the German delay type.

  On one occasion, these officers showed particular gallantry in dealing with an 1100lb. German bomb. Two attempts were made to explode this bomb but it failed to detonate; at the third attempt when it was in a most dangerous state, they succeeded in detonating it.

  On a second occasion, these officers, assisted by a Master Rigger of H.M. Dockyard , succeeded in removing a 400lb. high explosive Italian unexploded bomb which had been under water for a week in a 20ft. deep well inside a house. This bomb, fused at both ends, was in a dangerous state. It had to be raised to the ground floor by means of a gin, tackle, sling and ropes. This operation was doubly dangerous, as: (a) There was a possibility of the sling slipping while the bomb was being hauled up and (b) The bomb was two and half ft. long, the mouth of the well three ft. one inch wide, and for safety the bomb had to be kept horizontal, if possible, and pulled up thus. Lieutenant Eastman assisted the Master Rigger , guided the bomb from the floor of the well, and Captain Jones went to the top to guide it through the opening. They succeeded in getting the bomb out although there was only a six inch clearance as it came through the mouth of the well.

  — London Gazette

  After the war he commanded the RAOC Training Centr e until his retirement in 1966, when he retired with his wife to Malta , where he died, and is buried in the Ta' Braxia Cemetery in Pietà . Eastman's medals were sold at auction in 2008. They sold for a then world record amount of £49,450 and were acquired by Eastman's regimental museum .  †

• Sir Walter Fletcher was a British businessman and Conservative Party   politician. Born Walter Fleischl von Marxon , he was the second son of Paul Fleischl von Marxon. His father was an Austrian -born woolbroker, who became a naturalised British citizen in 1887.

  With the outbreak of World War I in 1914 Walter entered the British Army , obtaining a commission in the Army Ordnance Department . He served in East Africa , and by the end of the war in 1918 had reached the rank of major. In September 1919 he changed his name by deed poll to Walter Fletcher . He returned to Africa where he managed a large number of rubber plantations. He returned to England where he subsequently became chairman and managing director of Hecht, Levis and Kahn, a major rubber and commodities company. He held the position for thirty years. During World War II Fletcher worked for the Special Operations Executive , running an operation called Operation Remorse . Originally it was hoped Fletcher could use his contacts to smuggle rubber out of Japanese-occupied Malaya and Indo-China through the Chinese black market. The operation was diversified to include the smuggling of foreign currency, diamonds and machinery to fund the SOE's activities . In 1947 he was made Commander of the British Empire for his war service .

  He was elected at the 1945 general election as Member of Parliament (MP ) for Bury in Lancashire. When that constituency was abolished for the 1950 election , he was returned for the new Bury and Radcliffe constituency, and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1955 general election . In 1953 he was knighted . As well as his business and political interests Fletcher had extensive farms in Hertfordshire. He was also an accomplished painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy and in Bond Street galleries . †

• Captain Roger Philip Goad , GC , BEM , was an explosives officer with London's Metropolitan Police Service who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the heroism he displayed on 29 August 1975.  †

• Colonel George Francis Robert Henderson CB wa s a British soldier and military author . After he left University he joined Sandhurst , from where he was commissioned into the 84th Foot in 1878. After a few months service in India, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and returned to England, and in 1882 he went on active service to Egypt, fighting in the battles of Kassassin and Tel el-Kebir . During this time, he received numerous citations for bravery in combat , being promoted to captain in 1886. In 1885 he was seconded to the Ordnance Store Department . In 1889 appeared (anonymously) his first work, The Campaign of Fredericksburg . In the same year he became Instructor in Tactics , Military Law and Administration at Sandhurst . From this post he proceeded as Professor of Military Art and History to the Staff College (1892–1899), and there exercised a profound influence on the younger generation of officers. His study on Spicheren had been begun some years before, and in 1898 appeared, as the result of eight years work, his masterpiece: Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War .

  In the Second Boer War Lieutenant Colonel Henderson served with distinction on the staff of Lord Roberts as Director of Intelligence . But overwork and malaria broke his health, and he had to return home, being eventually selected to write the official history of the war . Failing health obliged him to go to Egypt , where he died at Assuan on 5 March 1903. He had completed the portion of the history of the South African War dealing with the events up to the commencement of hostilities, amounting to about a volume, but the War Office decided to suppress this, and the work was restarted by Sir F. Maurice .  †

• Major Ivan Hirst (4 March 1916 – 10 March 2000), was a British Army officer and engineer who was instrumental in reviving Volkswagen from a single factory in Wolfsburg , Germany, into a major postwar automotive manufacturer .

                                                                                                                                                                                                               Hirst was born in Saddleworth, Yorkshire, England and attended the Hulme Grammar School in Oldham. Hirst's family had founded the Hirst Brothers Company , a manufacturer of watches, clocks and optical components in Oldham. Hirst studied optical engineering at the University of Manchester , prior to forming his own company repairing optical instruments . While a student he was a member of the university's Officers' Training Corps contingent. Hirst was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 7th Battalion , Duke of Wellington's Regiment ( Territorial Army ) on 27 June 1934, and promoted to lieutenant three years later. A Captain on the outbreak of the Second World War , he was appointed adjutant on 1 October 1939. He transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC ) as a Mechanical Engineering Officer on 14 November 1941, and to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME ) on its formation on 1 October 1942. In the period after the D-Day landings he was in charge of a tank repair facility in Belgium . He landed in Germany in the summer of 1945, along with his colleague, Colonel Charles Radclyffe , when the British Army took control of the town of Wolfsburg . The original intention was to scrap the factory and use the proceeds as war reparations . But Hirst found a pre-war prototype Volkswagen in a remote workshop on the site and realised that the factory could be used for producing cars for the British Army . Hence, Hirst and Radclyffe laid the foundations for Volkswagen's successful automotive business.

  Much of the machinery had survived the bombing, having been stored in various outbuildings. Cars were put together with old-stock and whatever could be found, many using parts from the Kübelwagen until 1946, when the factory produced about 1000 cars a month.

  Hirst was fascinated by the potential of a four-wheel drive "Commanderwagon ", which he was confident would sell to the French and Canadian forestry industries . He also liked the proven versatility of the Volkswagen chassis demonstrated by Ambi Budd , Karmann and other coachworks .

  Hirst ended the war as a Major.

  Two of the most significant 'special' cars developed by Volkswagen while under the control of the British were the ' Radclyffe Roadster ', and a four-seater convertible , both custom-built by Rudolph Ringel . The Radclyffe was a two-seater roadster that was the transport of Colonel Charles Radclyffe over the summer months of 1946. The four-seater convertible was Ivan Hirst's personal transport.

  Karmann was asked to build a four-seater , and Hebmüller were asked to make a two-seater roadster . The design of the roadste r was not unlike the 'Radclyffe Roadster ', with similar hood and side windows. The rear engine cover, however, was a hand-formed panel, and not a converted front bonnet as was the Radclyffe versio n.

  The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers ( REME ) to which Hirst belonged, has a relationship with Volkswagen which began in 1945 with a REME detachment using the factory to repair captured enemy vehicles and later to overhaul Jeep and other British Army engines. Hirst , the Control Commission for Germany’s British Senior Resident Officer , arrived at the Volkswagen factory in August of that year.

  From 1946 the Volkswagen factory focus was on repairing and reconditioning Volkswagens and became known as No 2 REME Auxiliary Workshop . As the company's prospects improved, the unit became essentially civilian run but directed by the Army . The REME link ended when, on 6 September 1949, ownership transferred to the German Government . Since then VW has recognised the role that Ivan Hirst and REME played in its rise from the ashes of the Second World War . A close bond exists between Volkswagen and REME to this day. †

• William Dennis Goodchild Hunt MBE served a full career in the British Army as an Ammunition Technician (AT ) and Ammunition Technical Officer (ATO ) and served in the UK (including Northern Ireland), mainland Europe as well as the Middle and Far East . A strong advocate of raising standards in the industry, William campaigns for the expansion of International Mine Action Standards (IMAS ) to cover offshore UXO detection and clearance operations. Prior to commissioning, William Hunt attained the highest non-commissioned appointment of Conductor . More recently Hunt has been involved with the Sakhalin II integrated Oil and gas project in Far East Russia , advising on EOD and security issues . In 1993, Hunt was appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE ) for services to counter-terrorism specifically for the development of effective strategic and tactical countermeasures.

  His achievements were again formally recognized in 2003 by Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh at a special reception at Buckingham Palace in November 2003. The reception was to mark the contribution of 'Pioneers to the Life of the Nation '. He has also been decorated by the governments of the United Kingdom , HM The Sultan of Brunei and the General Staff of Russia .

• Brigadier Robert Llewellyn Jephson Jones GC was awarded the George Cross along with Lieutenant (later Brigadier) Bill Eastman RAOC (also George Cross ), for incredible courage, dealing with some 275 unexploded bombs in total on the island of Malta .

  He began his officer training at Sandhurst in 1923. He was commissioned into the Duke of Wellington's Regiment in 1925, served as Adjutant of the 6th Nigerian Regiment in 1932-4, and joined the RAOC in 1936.

  For details of his award citation see Brigadier William Marsden Eastman GC above.  †

• Major-General John Seumas Kerr CBE (born 1953) is a former British Army officer . Kerr was commissioned in to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in 1973. As a colonel he undertook a tour in Northern Ireland in 1995 during the Troubles for which he was awarded the CBE. He was appointed Deputy Adjutant-General in December 1999, Assistant Chief of Staff with responsibility for logistics at Permanent Joint Headquarters in Northwood in 2002 during the Iraq War and General Officer Commanding 4th Division in 2004 before he retired in 2006. In retirement he joined the senior management of the support services arm of Carillion.

• Harold Stephen Langhorne was a Brigadier-General in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps of the British Army and served in India, Burma, Hong Kong, South Africa and France. He went to the Royal Military Academy , Woolwich , London, England, which was established in 1741 to educate the military branch of the Board of Ordnance to produce officers for the Artillery and Engineers . He entered the Royal Artillery in 1885 and was promoted to Captain (1895), Major (1904), Lieutenant-Colonel (1907), and Colonel (1914). His ordnance formation was as follows: Ordnance Officer 4th Class 1896-1902, 3rd Class 1902-7, 2nd Class 1907-14, 1st class 1914. On 1 April 1896 he was seconded for service with the Inspection Branch . †

• Graham Thomson Lyall VC was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces .

  Lyall was born in Manchester and joined the Royal Navy to study mechanical engineering. However he was discharged from the Navy after suffering an ear infection. He emigrated to Canada, settling in Welland, Ontario, then moving to Chippawa, where he worked for a Power Company. He enlisted in the Canadian Militia in August 1914.

  Lyall was 26 years old, and a lieutenant in the 102nd (North British Columbians ) Battalion , Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World Wa r at the battle of the Canal du Nord when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC .

  On 27 September 1918 north of Cambrai , France , Lieutenant Lyall led his platoon in the capture of a strong-point, together with 13 prisoners, one field-gun and four machine-guns. Later, leading his men against another strong-point he rushed forward alone and captured the position single-handed, taking 45 prisoners and five machine-guns. The completion of his final objective resulted in the capture of 41 prisoners. On 1 October in the neighbourhood of Blecourt , he captured a strongly defended position which yielded 60 prisoners and 17 machine-guns. During both these operations, on attaining his objectives, Lieutenant Lyall tended the wounded under fire.

  Lyall returned to the UK in 1919 and joined the British Army . He achieved the rank of Colonel during World War II before dying of a heart attack at Mersa Matruh , Egypt , on 28 November 1941. Lyall is buried at Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery , Egypt located 10 miles east of Libyan  border (plot XIX, row B, grave 2).

  Lyall's Victoria Cross , together with his medal set and citation is on display at The REME Museum of Technology in Arborfield , Berkshire , England .  †

• Thomas Melville Watson McGown was an Irish International Rugby Union forward who played club rugby for Cambridge University and North of Ireland FC . McGown played International Rugby for Ireland and in 1899 he was selected for the British Isles team on its tour of Australia .

  McGown was born in Belfast in 1876, and was educated at Merchiston Castle School in Scotland, before being accepted into Clare College, Cambridge in 1894. He gained his Bachelor of Arts in 1897 and served as a solicitor to the Supreme Court of Judicature in Ireland . He fought for the British Army during the First World War , serving in the Royal Army Ordnance Department . McGown reached the rank of Major, holding the additional posts of Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster-General . For his actions during the War , he was Mentioned in Dispatches . †

• Samuel Meekosha VC , who changed his name by deed poll to Samuel Ingham in 1942, was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces .

  Samuel Meekosha , born in Leeds , his family moved to Bradford when he was a baby. Samuel's mother was English and he had a Polish father,he was proud of his Eastern European roots but was such a reluctant hero that he changed his surname to Ingham , from his mother's maiden name of Cunningham .

  He was 22 years old, and a Corporal in the 1/ 6th Battalion , West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own ) , British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC .

  On 19 November 1915 near the Yser , France , Corporal Meekosha was with a platoon of about 20 NCOs and men holding an isolated trench. During a very heavy bombardment six of the platoon were killed and seven wounded, while the rest were more or less buried. When there were no senior NCOs left in action Corporal Meekosha took command, sent for help and in spite of more big shells falling within 20 yards of him, continued to dig out the wounded and buried men in full view of and at close range from the enemy. He was assisted by Privates Johnson , Sayers and Wlkinson who were all awarded the DCM . Their courage saved at least four lives.

  Meekosha was commissioned into the West Yorkshire Regiment in 1917. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1918 and Captain in 1919. He transferred to the Corps of Military Accountants in 1919, retiring in 1926. He rejoined the West Yorkshire Regiment as a Captain in 1940 and transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps , based in Leicestershire, later the same year. He was later promoted Major.

  It was reported in the 3 April 2001 issue of The Times that James Morton , Sotheby's medal specialist, said: "Meekosha was a very modest man who was quite dismissive of the act that earned him the VC . He joined up for the Second World War and because of his unusual name people kept asking him: 'Aren't you the chap that won the VC ?' In an attempt to stop the questions he changed his name [to Ingham ] by deed poll in 1941 or 1942."

  After the First World War he became a representative for the tobacco company John Player .

  His Victoria Cross was sold for £101,200 at Sotheby's on 3 May 2001.  †

• Peter Austin Harley Newbrook BSC was a British born cinematographer, director, producer and writer. He began his career as a trainee cameraman and focus puller with Warner Brothers British studios at Teddington in London. During the Second World War he made Army training films with the Army Kinematograph Service and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. †

• Brigadier Alan Herring Parnaby OBE   was an English cricketer and British Army officer.  While serving in the military, Parnaby made his first-class debut for the Combined Services against Kent at the Garrison Stadium , Gillingham. He made five further first-class appearances for the team in the 1949 season, before making a final appearance in 1953 against the touring Australians . In his seven first-class matches for the Combined Services , he scored 303 runs at an average of 21.64, with a high score of 87. This score was one of two half centuries he made for the team and came on debut against Kent.

  His military service began as an emergency commission in the British Army during World War II , with the commissioned rank of 2nd Lieutenant on 3 September 1939. He was mentioned in dispatches in the London Gazette on 7 August 1945 in recognition of gallantry and distinguished service in North-West Europe with the Royal Ordnance Corps as a Temporary Major. He was promoted to Brigadier on 30 June 1968.

  He was later appointed as the Aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II , replacing the retiring Brigadier Walter Lionel Presson on 5 April 1970. At this time he was serving as Deputy Director of Ordnance Services at Headquarters , Southern Command . He retired from military service on 2 September 1971 with the rank of Brigadier. His position as Aide-de-camp to the Queen was taken by Brigadier Derek Heyworth Davis . †

• Sir Joseph Davidson Qualtrough JP SHK was one of the most renowned Manx politicians ever and Speaker of the House of Keys from 1937 to 1960.

  He was born in Castletown in 11 June 1885, son of Joseph Qualtrough MLC , Receiver General of the Isle of Man . He was educated at King William's College and then served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps from 1915 to 1919 as a Lieutenant. On his return from the war he was elected MHK for Castletown in 1919 in the by election. He was returned unopposed in 1919, 1924, 1929 and 1934 and was successfully returned as MHK at the 1946, 1951 and 1956 General Elections . He died in 1960 while still sitting as an MHK . He was appointed Speaker on 7 December 1937 and served in that position until his death on 14 January 1960. †

• Michael John Christopher Scott was a British Television Producer and Presenter. He is best remembered for his TV talk show, The Time, The Place and his work as a reporter on World in Action . Scott served as a second lieutenant in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps during his National Service . †

• Digby Smith is a British military historian . The son of a British career soldier, he was born in Hampshire, England, but spent several years in India and Pakistan as a child and youth. As a "boy soldier," he entered training in the British Army at the age of 16. He was later commissioned in the Royal Corps of Signals , and held several postings with the British Army of the Rhine . Digby left Farnborough Grammar School at the age of 16 to the army as an apprentice telecommunications technician . He received additional training at Minden in 1954 as a Technician III Class . After a six-month stint at the Pintsch Electro Radio Factory in Constance, Smith returned to Duisburg.

  In 1960 the war office selection board sent him to Mons Officer Cadet School at Aldershot, and he received his commission as a Lieutenant in 10th Signal Regiment , posted in Krefeld, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Here he was a Troop Commander using the same Pintch equipment he had studied in Constance. In 1961, he received a commission into the Royal Corps of Signals , and served in the British Army of the Rhine . In 1965, he transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps , where he worked in computers and logistics and the study of work. From 1970–1972, he had a stint at the German Armed Forces Command and Staff College , located at Blankenese, near Hamburg.

  Originally writing under the pen name, Otto von Pivka , since his retirement from the military he has written another dozen books, venturing into narrative history with his 1813 : Leipzig  : Napoleon and the Battle of the Nations in 2001 and Charge! : Great Cavalry Charges of the Napoleonic Wars in 2003 . His Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book : Actions and Losses in Personnel , Colours , Standards and Artillery , 1792–1815 (1998) is considered a standard for French Revolutionary War and Napoleonic War historians, re-enactors, and hobbyists.

• John Keith Stanford OBE MC was a British writer of the mid 20th century. Stanford was commissioned into the Suffolk Regiment in 1915 and was attached to the Tank Corps from 1917. He ended the First World War with the rank of Captain. Appointed to the Indian Civil Service on 24 October 1919, he arrived in India on 24 December 1919.  In 1939, he was commissioned Lieutenant in the National Defence Companies . In 1940, Stanford transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps . He retired in 1945 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.  †

• Lieutenant Colonel Stephen George Styles GC , usually known as George Styles , was a bomb disposal expert in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC ). He received the George Cross for his service in defusing terrorist bombs in Northern Ireland in the 1970s.

  Styles was called up for National Service in 1946, and, after officer cadet training , he was commissioned into the RAOC and posted to the central ammunition depot at Kineton . He obtained a regular commission in 1949, and was seconded to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry . He served with the 1st Battalion in the Malayan Emergency and was mentioned in dispatches . He studied at the Royal Military College of Science , obtaining an engineering degree . He returned to Malaya , commanding the 28th Commonwealth Brigade Ordnance Field Park Regiment , based at Taiping , then served with the 1st British Corps of the British Army of the Rhine in Germany. He was posted to Northern Ireland in 1969. In 1971, he was a major in the RAOC , serving as deputy assistant director of ordnance services and senior ammunition technical officer in Northern Ireland and commanding the Explosive Ordnance and Disposal Team . On 20 October 1971, one month after a bomb (an Improvised Explosive Device) killed one of his colleagues at Castlerobin in County Antrim, he was called to defuse a similar bomb left in a telephone booth in the bar of the Europa Hotel in Belfast, the main hotel used by journalists posted to Northern Ireland to report on the Troubles . From a captured example, Styles knew that the box containing the explosive would be booby-trapped, with micro switches at the top or bottom which would set off the bomb if the container was tilted or the lid removed, aiming to kill the bomb disposal experts. He built a mock-up of the bomb to work out his method. X-rays showed that the bomb contained approximately 15 lb of explosives. He and two colleagues took seven hours to disable its electrical circuits, after which the explosive was hauled onto the pavement outside the hotel and destroyed in a controlled explosion. Two days later, he was recalled to the hotel to deal with a second bomb, this time containing 40 lb of explosives. Extra wiring, micro switches, and many redundant circuits had been added to confuse the bomb disposal experts . The second bomb took nine hours to disarm. In all, Styles and his team defused over 1,000 bombs.

  It was announced on 11 January 1972 that Styles had been awarded the George Cross . He received his medal from Queen Elizabeth II at an investiture at Buckingham Palace on 28 March 1972. The uniform that he wore while defusing the bombs in Northern Ireland is on display at the Imperial War Museum .

  He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel when he left Northern Ireland in 1972. He became chief ammunition technical officer , with responsibility for all RAOC bomb disposal teams in the UK and overseas. He retired from the British Army in 1974, and he became an adviser for various companies on anti-terrorist techniques. He published a book, Bombs Have No Pity , in 1975. †

• Anthony Cleland Welch OBE , is a UK-based former soldier, UN official, politician and academic. In 1969 Welch was commissioned into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps . He volunteered for Commando Training and, after passing the All Arms Commando Course at the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines (CTCRM ), Lympstone joined the newly formed Commando Logistic Regiment Royal Marines . He also passed both the British and German parachute training courses . He was to serve with the Regiment for ten years, commanding the Ordnance Squadron and the Regiment in 1985/6. His other military appointments included Staff Captain Q , Headquarters 7th Armoured Brigade (1976/8), SO2 , AQ Operations and Planning on the Quartermaster general London Staff (1983) and Commanding Officer , Falkland Islands Logistic Battalion (1984). He attended the British Army Staff College , Camberley and was a student on the second Higher Command and Staff Course . He taught at the Army and RAF Staff Colleges in 1987-88. In 1988 he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff of the 3rd (UK ) Armoured Division and, after working on the staff of the UK Military Commander , General Sir Peter de la Billière , as Deputy Chief of Staff (Land ) during the first Gulf War , became the Commandant of Central Ordnance Depot Donnington and Commander of Donnington Garrison . He saw action in Northern Ireland , the Falklands Conflict and the first Gulf War . He took early retirement in the rank of Brigadier in 1993.

   

   

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Active	1918 - 1993
Allegiance	United Kingdom
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Role	Storage and issuing of ordnance
Garrison/HQ	Woolwich Arsenal
Motto(s)	Sua teila tonati (literally "His [i.e Jupiter's  ] Missiles to the one who is Thundering", but commonly translated as "To the Warrior his Arms")
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