Corps can only date its present organization from 1888, it has a much longer existence, being directly descended from the "Corps of Royal Waggoners," founded in 1794 for the great war with France. This Corps reappeared in the Waterloo campaign as the "Royal Wagon Train." In 1888 the Army Service Corps as now constituted, was brought on the strength of the Army. The Corps is perhaps the most interesting unit in the Army, owing to ite varied duties and revponsibilitie. The supply branch provides the Army with forage, bread and meat in peace and war, the Corps Field Butcheries and Bakeries being far in advance of anything possessed by other nations. The supply also provides most of the general clerical staff of the Army. The Transport branch hae duties equally important and varied. Transport both by land and inland waters comes within their duties, and such widely Parated means of transport ae camels and canal boats, mules and motors, draught horses and donkeys, traction engines and wagons of all sorts and sizes, needing extensive and peculiar know! During the South African War the extraordinary demands made upon the Corps tested fully the soundness of the organization, and its system of expansion. Two of the "Suwa" contingent, Messrs. T. B. Maguire and H. M. Oatley, have joined this branch of the army as instructors and are shortly proceeding to the front. They are both old service men, and while in Shanghai served for s number of years in the Artillery.
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