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==Ordnance artificers==
This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2010-07/1278311194 post] is about men who were Carnatic Ordnance artificers, including the training these men received. An artificer, or artifier, has the general meaning of craftsman, and the meanings also include ‘A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory’ and 'A member of the military who specializes in manufacturing and repairing weapon systems' (Carnatic is a term for South India, and refers to Madras Presidency)
In Madras, many who were employed in the Carnatic Corps of Artificers, which was attached to the Gun Carriage Manufactory, were Anglo-Indian (Eurasian) <ref>[http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2020%20No%2012/the-anglo-indians-of-madras.html "The Anglo-Indians of Madras"] from Madras Musings dated October 1-15, 2010</ref>
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The title changed to Indian Army Ordnance (Store) Department 1887, and was headed by the [[Commissariat General]] - Ordnance. It subsequently became the Indian Army Ordnance Corps, 1922.
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==NotesOccupations=====Ordnance artificers===This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2010-07/1278311194 post] is about men who were Carnatic Ordnance artificers, including the training these men received. An artificer, or artifier, has the general meaning of craftsman, and the meanings also include ‘A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory’ and 'A member of the military who specializes in manufacturing and repairing weapon systems' (Carnatic is a term for South India, and refers to Madras Presidency) In Madras, many who were employed in the Carnatic Corps of Artificers, which was attached to the Gun Carriage Manufactory, were Anglo-Indian (Eurasian) <references ref>[http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2020%20No%2012/the-anglo-indians-of-madras.html "The Anglo-Indians of Madras"] from Madras Musings dated October 1-15, 2010</ref> ===Civil Chief Master Armourer===The duties of a Civil Chief Master Armourer are discussed in this Victorian Wars Forum [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=8582&p=39708 thread] dated September 2013. They appear to be persons who went around inspecting weapons in places which held them, such as police stations and prisons.
==External links==
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924030697688#page/n5/mode/2up ''Sketch of the mode of manufacturing gunpowder at the Ishapore mills in Bengal''] by William Anderson 1862 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=n1ABAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA164 ''Strength, Organisation and Composition of the Army of Great Britain''], Martin Petrie (1864) gives details of the Ordnance Department factories, pp164-167.
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