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    thewideeyedowl
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    Default Transport and Supply in WW1

    The scale of WW1 was immense - in numbers of men and horses, and in quantities of supplies (food, munitions, equipment and much else). I have just come across this informative page on the website of the Imperial War Museum: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/transp...irst-world-war. So much/so many had to be moved around, i.e. it was a logistics nightmare. This page describes what happened and how.

    The engineers had the specialist jobs of laying tracks, creating bridges etc etc, often in dire conditions. And it should also be required reading if you find that 'your man' was in the Army Service Corps (ASC), the dogsbody corps that kept the show on the road.
    Owl

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    My grandfather was a baker and was always said to have been in the Catering Corp, which we think was the ASC. I found somewhere else a list of WW1 rations - each person was entitled to 1lb of bread per day - that's a large loaf of bread. Imagine having to make that, or indeed any other food out in the field.

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    thewideeyedowl
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    Hi Megan

    Yes, I believe the Catering Corps were included in the ASC - after all, an army "marches on its stomach".

    My ASC grandfather was, I believe, a driver and/or had something to do with horses. But he's my brickwall and no records survive, just the MIC. (Just my luck!)

    Owl

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