The Army Catering Corps has therefore had a very short history, but the training and employment of cooks in the Army is still managed by professional military caterers. The Army School of Catering still exists and is still a Centre of Excellence, which is a model to many similar organisations. Soldiers passing through the Defence Food Services School at St Omer Barracks, as it is now called, leave with National Vocational Qualifications and can build their portfolios during the whole of their career. RLC Chefs are still serving with distinction in all British regiments in all theatres of operation, just as their predecessors did all those years ago. Importantly, the Corps members past and present still gather annually in different parts of the country to share thoughts, words and deeds, through the Army Catering Corps Association and its satellites.

            

              

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                   

 

 

 

 

The Royal Logistic Corps Cap badge incorporates one element of each of the forming Corp’s badges, including the motto of the Army Catering Corps “We Sustain”. For a link to the RLC website place your curser over the following text:

http://www.army.mod.uk/rlc/

The Army Catering Corps was amalgamated into the Royal Logistic Corps

on 5th April 1993, together with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, the Royal Pioneer Corps, the Royal Corps of Transport and the postal section of the Royal Engineers.

Cap Badges of the Former Army Catering Corps

1953 - 1973   

1973 - 1993    

1941 - 1953

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