Royal Army Service Corps

The Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was initially known as the Army Service Corps (ASC), Royal being added to the title in 1918.

The first ASC units were sent to India in May 1916 (arrived June 4th) at a time when it was thought that the Indian equivalent, the Supply and Transport Corps, was not up to scratch – "The war in Mesopotamia quickly proved the shortcomings of the organization … for a campaign of this magnitude where the conditions differed from the accustomed ones. It was just after the fall of Kut el Amara that it was decided to send some Army Service Corps units to India."

Regimental History

The Royal Army Service Corps Volume II, by Col R H Beadon c 1931 contains a chapter "The Corps in India" – Chapter XV, pages 457-486

War Diaries at the National Archives

• WO 95/5390 War Diaries: North West Frontier Force contains
• 1028 Mechanical Transport Company ASC 1919 May – July
• 630 Mechanical Transport Company ASC 1916-1918
• 656 Mechanical Transport Company ASC 1919
• 692, 693, 694 Transport Company ASC 1915-1918
• 871 Mechanical Transport Company ASC 1917-1918

Also see

• Khyber Ropeway Company

External links

• Royal Army Service Corps Wkipedia. Retrieved 16 August 2014
• RLC [Royal Logistic Corps] Digital Library. A pay website. The RLC Digital Library is a searchable pay-per-view or subscription archive containing digital images of a number of documents and books held in the Corps Library and also in the Museum. Initially, it will contain the Gazettes and Journals from the Corps which merged to form The Royal Logistic Corps in 1993, Including the Royal Army Service Corps (journals from 1891) and the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (journals from 1906). Retrieved 30 August 2014