General Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson, was a British Army officer, military historian, author and Governor of Gibraltar.
Its principal recommendations were that, although there would be no change in logistic corps structure (this was to come later with the implementation of the Logistic Support Review (LSR) in 1993), that a new logistic staff structure - to be called the Logistic Executive (Army) (LE(A))- was to be set up and absorb the RAOC's HQ Base Organisation and REME's Support Group as well as the staff of Deputy Quarter Master General (DQMG). LE(A) was to be set up outside London; Andover was eventually selected.[1]
The major change in staff working was the amalgamation of the Directorate of Equipment Management with Royal Engineers (RE), Royal Corps of Transport (RCT), Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) and Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) staff branches. For the first time a single point of contact would lead on an individual item or range of equipment. This produced much needed simplification. The main drawback was that the equipment inventory was divided somewhat arbitrarily.[citation needed] RE (Engineer Services) took over control of equipment, principally plant, operated solely by that corps. RCT took on railway and maritime (including port) equipment. The RAOC assumed responsibility for ranges not normally subject to base repair (principally non-armoured vehicles, small arms and clothing and general stores) and the REME the base repair range (principally armoured vehicles, larger weapon systems and communications and electronic equipment).
The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army.
The Royal Corps of Transport (RCT) was a British Army Corps established to manage all matters in relation to the transport of men and material for the Army and the wider Defence community. It was formed in 1965 and disbanded in 1993; its units and trades were amalgamated into the Royal Logistic Corps. The Depot and Training Regiment RCT was at Buller Barracks in Aldershot.
The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army. At its renaming as a Royal Corps 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 (REME) 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. On 5 April 1993, the RAOC was one of the corps that amalgamated to form The Royal Logistic Corps (RLC).
The other major change was a large scale exodus from London to the former RAF Maintenance Command site at Andover in Hampshire.
RAF Maintenance Command was the Royal Air Force command which was responsible for controlling maintenance for all the United Kingdom-based units from formation on 1 April 1938 until being renamed RAF Support Command on 31 August 1973.
RAF Andover is a former Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force station located 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Andover, Hampshire and 15.1 miles (24.3 km) north east of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
This rationalisation was designed to achieve cost savings of 20% and undoubtedly simplified staff procedures.
Footnotes
↑ Major General LTH Phelps 'A History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1945-1982' RAOC, Didcot 1991. pp350-353
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