Royal Ordnance Corps 1920-1947 Cap Badge asb Physical description

Physical description

This example includes an original campaign clasp or medal bar

Undamaged wood grips

with the violet moving through to a central red stripe where both schemes meet

particularly with British anti-tank weapons

Royal Ordnance Corps 1920-1947 Cap Badge asb Physical descriptionThe Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army. 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