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ADJUTANT GENERAL’S CORPS
25th ANNIVERSARY
History of the

Formation of the Corps

By Major (Retired) Joseph Bright MBE

The decision in principle • Staff and Personnel Support
to form the Corps was •
Provost
made in April 1990 (Royal Military Police and
when a concept paper Military Provost Staff)

had been circulated •
Educational and Training
for comment from the Services
chain of command and
the Directors of the • Army Legal Services
Corps concerned. The On 1 April 1993 clerks of the Royal
proposals were greeted Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
with undisguised horror by joined Staff and Personnel Support
Branch. On 5 April 1993 clerks of the
officers and soldiers who Royal Corps of Transport, Royal Pioneer
had devoted their service Corps and Army Catering Corps joined

lives to the interest of their the Staff and Personnel Support Branch
on formation of the Royal Logistic
own Corps. Corps. On 1 July 1993 regimental
clerks of the remaining Arms and
Services were subsumed into Staff and
On 17 December 1990 The Adjutant Personnel Support Branch completing
General, General Sir Robert Pascoe the formation of the Corps. On 1 April
announced that Her Majesty The Queen 1997 the Military Provost Guard Service
had accepted the recommendations of formed and became part of Provost
the Army Board that a Corps should Branch. On 30 June 2011 clerks of the
be formed ‘on a federal basis to Royal Gurkha Rifles became the new
provide a more rational and efficient Gurkha Staff and Personnel Support
organisation’. The 6th April 1992 was Company.
set as the earliest possible formation The 6th of April 2017 marked the 25th
date. Anniversary of the formation of the
The Adjutant General’s Corps was Corps, with its constituent elements
formed from the Royal Army Pay Corps, continuing to contribute indispensable
the Corps of Royal Military Police, the functions to both the Firm Base and on
Military Provost Staff Corps, the Royal Operations.
Army Educational Corps, the Army
Legal Corps and the Staff Clerks from
the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. At the
same time, the Women’s Royal Army
Corps was disbanded and its members
were transferred to other Corps of the
Army, including the Adjutant General’s
Corps. The new Corps consisted of four
Branches:

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