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ADJUTANT GENERAL’S CORPS
25th ANNIVERSARY

Provost Marshal (Army)

“The Provost must have together under the generic term of Act in 2006, the selection of the Army’s
a horse allowed him and ‘Provost’. Five years later, they were Chief Police Officer was placed on a
some soldiers to joined by another ‘Provost’ element, statutory footing and the appointment
with the creation of the Military Provost
is now made by Her Majesty The Queen
attend him and all the rest Guard Service in February 1997. (who had become the Colonel-in-Chief
commanded to obey and of the Royal Military Police in 1977).
assist or else the Provost Branch
Service will suffer, for he Ancient Office
is but one man and must Throughout the last twenty-five years, Today, the Provost Marshal (Army)
correct many and the Provost Marshal (Army), which is responsible to the Chief-of-the-
therefore he cannot be is one of the most ancient offices of General Staff and the Army Board of
beloved.” the Crown and arguably the oldest the Defence Council for delivering: an
permanent appointment in the British independent, effective and accountable
[Articles of War - Charles I - 1629] police service; and a safe and secure
Army dating back to at least 1511, has
remained the Head of Service, the Chief environment for those Army personnel
Officer of the Royal Military Police and subject to periods of detention in Service
Creation of Provost Branch the Defence advisor on all Operational Custody Facilities and at the Military
Detention matters. Corrective Training Centre. As such,
Both the Corps of Royal Military Police Before the formation of the Adjutant there has been no change to the way
and the Military Provost Staff Corps lost General’s Corps, the Provost Marshal the Provost Branch has conducted itself
their Royal Warrants as separate Corps (Army) was appointed using the Royal since the formation of the Adjutant
in the Army’s ‘Order of Battle’ on the Prerogative, reflecting the importance of General’s Corps.
creation of the Adjutant General’s Corps the post to the Sovereign in Tudor times,
on 6th April 1992 and were grouped but with the advent of the Armed Forces

Brigadier I Cameron Brigadier I W Fulton OBE Brigadier M Nugent CBE

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