Description
Description: Royal Army Service Corps – Officer Collar Badge Pair
Maker’s Name: J R Gaunt, London
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Royal Army Service Corps – Officer Collar Badge Pair. Complete with two lugs.
The Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was a corps of the British Army. It was responsible for land, coastal and lake transport; air despatch; supply of food, water, fuel, and general domestic stores such as clothing, furniture and stationery (but not ammunition and military and technical equipment, which were the responsibility of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps); administration of barracks; the Army Fire Service; and provision of staff clerks to headquarters units.
In the Second World War the RASC carried supplies of fuel and ammunitions in the North Africa campaign and then later supported the Polish Cavalry with ammunition as the Allies advanced up through Italy. Some units were attached to Montgomery’s Eighth Army as Desert Rats.
It is now part of the Royal Logistic Corps.
