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The Army Service Corps can be traced back to the Corps of Waggoners formed in 1794. The main role of the ASC was transport, they were responsible for the movement of all supplies required by the Army, including food, fuel, ammunition, horses, clothing and equipment. During the Great War supplies were moved by horse drawn, steam and motor powered vehicles as well as by rail and waterways. The abbreviation MT stands for Motorized Transport and HT for Horse Transport.
The Army Service Corps was organised into Companies and provided men for the Divisonal Train, Divisional Supply Column and Divisional Ammunition Park for each Division of the British Army. The Remounts Service was responsible for the supply of trained horses, whilst the Labour Corps provided men skilled in manual labour, who under took tasks such as loading and unloading supplies from trains and ships. The Pioneer Battalions took care of repairing roads and railways and army buildings.
The Army Service Corps numbered over ten thousand officers and a third of a million men, as well as employing huge numbers of labourers from China, India and Africa along with locals.
The Army Service Corps became The Royal Army Service Corps in 1918 and their decendant unit today is the Royal Logistic Corps.
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List of those who served with Army Service Corps during The Great War
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Dvr. George A. Phillips Army Service Corps (d.10th Oct 1914) George Phillips died at Netley on the 10th October 1914 he was 29 years old. |
Henry Hunt I'm trying to find out more about my grandfather Henry Hunt, who died from the effects of gassing after the first world war. In 1915 he was working in a car factory in Preston, and I wonder if he was called up for his ability to drive a car. Also, I remember my father saying that Henry had worked with horses. Anyway, the only lead have is a photograph, where is wearing a standard Tommies uniform, but has an unusual shoulder badge in the shape of a star. Could this be army service corps? It is close the the cap badge worn by the Army Service Corps. |
2nd Lt. Leslie William John Clist 2/4th Btn. Somerset Light infantry Leslie Clist enlisted in the Army Service Corps and was a Corporal when he went to France on the 24th of July 1915. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lt. into the Somerset Light Infantry on the 26th of Novemeber 1917 and was posted to the 2/4th Battalion, serving in Palestine and France. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 30th of April 1919. |
Act Cpl Cecil Hearnden Royal Fusliers My father served in WW1 having falsified his age to join up, he enlisted with the London Regiment and served with the Royal Fusilers and later the Army Service Corps. He was in the reserve at start of WW2 and went to France with the BEF, he was wounded and captured, ending up in Stalag XXB.
If anyone has any information on his service during the Great War I'd be very grateful. |
Pte. David Adam Magee Croix de la Guerre Army Service Corps My Grandfather David A. Magee joined the A.S.C 1915 and left in 1919. I believe he drove a field ambulance in France. According to his demob certificate while also involved with the Lord Stratheonas Horse & Canadian Expeditionary Force he was awarded the Croix de Guerre dated 13.3.1917. We have no more information on this and no medal, although we have all his other campaign medals. This is about the time of the Battle of Moreuil Wood. Can anyone help me acquire anymore information on why he was awarded this medal? Thanks.
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Pte. John Henry Bray Army Service Corps My sister Irene and I are looking for a photo of our Grandfather, or any information about him, as we have never seen him. The photographs that existed of him have long been lost. His name was J. H. Bray, we think the J. H. stood for John Henry. The reason we are asking is that we have found a medal that belonged to him. Printed on one side of the medal are the words "THE GREAT WAR OF CIVILISATION 1914 - 1919" and the other side is what seems to be an Angel. Round the edge of the medal are the words " M2 - 049076 PTE. J. H. BRAY A.S.C.".
Thank you for taking time out to read this letter, and in anticipation Thank you for your help. |
Dvr. Albert H. Dean 527th Horse Transport Coy. Army Service Corps (d.27th Nov 1918) My Grandmother's Uncle Albert H Dean; an ambulance man from New Malden
in Surrey, survived almost to the last day of the war only to die in the 10th Military Hospital in France of
bronch-pneumonia, leaving a young and devoted widow named Mabel and two very young sons.
Albert had asked his cousin to "look after Mabel and the boys" should anything happen to him. His cousin
married Mabel and did take good care of his boys. I am in possession of Albert H Dean's original military
death certificate and I was lucky enough to meet his 95 year old surviving son, Arthur Dean, a couple of years back
who was able to describe the day that they received word that his father had died and was to be buried at Rouen.
Arthur Dean still commemorates his father's life - all of these many years later - on Armistice Day. He cried when
I was able to hand over a small Bible (which had been left to me amongst family papers and photos and other memorabilia)
that had once belonged to his father when his father was a boy. |
Private Frederick Arthur Hopps 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers (d.2nd September 1918) Frederick Hopps was compulsorily transferred from Army Service Corps to 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers mid January 1918 and was killed in action 2nd September same year. Grave at Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery (near Ypres) - Grave reference IV.G.17. At rest with about 20 (actually 21 others) comrades from the same battalion who died on the same day. R.I.P.
He was the son of Mrs. A. E. Hopps and was aged 24 when he was killed.
The others who died that day are:
BOYLEN J 41678 7TH BN
CROWTHER H 41905 1ST BN
DOORIS T 26917 1ST BN
HARDY C J 49978 1ST BN
HEATH G D 49993 1ST BN
HEATHMAN H 50019 1ST BN
HOLLAND H 49811 1ST BN
HOPPS FA 41860 1ST BN
HYLAND J 11056 1ST BN
JAGGER E 41882 1ST BN
JONES WJ 49911 1ST BN
KOSZEGI F 29616 1ST BN
LEAH J 23478 1ST BN
LINNEY E H 41811 1ST BN
MCGEEHAN N 40134 1ST BN
MONTGOMERY S 2482 1ST BN
O'CONNOR H 6964 1ST BN
PARFITT F E 50018 1ST BN
PARTINGTON M R 49980 1ST BN
SHERIDAN P 23754 1ST BN
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Pte. James Joesph Holmes 33rd Bn (d. 12th Oct1918) Born and enlisted in York, James Holmes also served in the Army Service Corps service number T4/159786. Killed in action on 12th October 1918 with the 33rd Machine Gun Corps, aged 30 at Le Cateau. He is commemorated on Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Panel 10. He is commemorated St Cuthbert's Church War Memorial, Peasholme Green, York. Also on the official North Eastern Railway War Memorial, Station Road York. His name appeared in the Yorkshire Herald on 10th December 1918 in a list of men from St Cuthbert's parish who died during the war.
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Pte. Henry Rixon 18th Aux Bus Coy. (d. 24th Aug 1918) I am trying to trace more information about Henry Rixon. I do know that he served in the Hundred Days Offensive, the final period of World War 1. He was killed in Action 24th August 1918 and is commemorated at Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres. |
Pte. Harry L. Rule HQ 52nd Lowland Division Army Service Corps (d.1st Jan 1917) My late Grandfather, Private Harry L. Rule was born in Hawick, Scotland. He was the son of Mr John Rule, Inspector of Poor, and Mrs. Rule. Private Rule died at sea, aged 41, on 1st January 1917 when SS Ivernia was torpedoed and sunk near Cape Matapan, Greece, by German submarine UB-47.
121 lives were lost when the ship went down. Private Rule left a widow, Elizabeth, and three young children, John, Jim and Janet. His name is recorded on the Mikra Memorial, Kalamaria, Greece.
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Pte. Joe George Rey Army Service Corps I have recently discovered that my great grandfather, Joe Rey served in ASC during World War 1 and was in France between 12/8/1914 and 23/8/1915. I would be very interested to find which unit he served with and and any stories related to the unit, I would especially like to see any pictures of the unit. |
Drv. Myer Bookman Army Service Corps My Grandfather, Myer Bookman is reputed to have been a driver for T E Lawrence which I would like to try and confirm. He is also supposed to have been imprisoned for a short while for refusing to go on a firing squad.
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Pte. John Christie Mechanical Transport Army Service Corps (d.28 Nov 1915) John Christie was born in Darlington in 1881, one of twins who were the eldest of 8 sons. Four of those brothers were fatal casualties in WW1.
I am trying to establish what actually happened to John, did he die from injuries received? He is listed as having died in Brough, a town in what was Westmorland - was there a military hospital there in 1915? The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website tells me he is buried in All Saints Cemetery in Newcastle. Can anyone shed any light please? If so, I would be delighted to hear from them. |
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