Australia
Ordnance History
- To the Warrior his Arms: a history of the ordnance services in the Australian Army. John D. Tilbrook, Canberra: Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps Committee, 1989. Online at RAAOC History
- The History and Customs and Traditions of the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps. Published by Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps Committee, 1995. Online at RAAOC History, Customs and Traditions.
- Ordnance Citizen Forces Queensland, A history of units and personnel 1925 – 1998. Online at RAAOCFQ
Regulations, Manuals and Technical Publications
Canada
Canadian Ordnance Corps
- Hitsman, J Mackay. Military Inspection Services in Canada 1855-1950. Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1962.
- Rannie, William F., ed. To the Thunderer His Arms: The Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. Lincoln, Ont., Canada: W.F. Rannie, 1984.
- Canada, Dept. of Militia and Defence. Standing Orders of the Canadian Ordnance Corps, 1908. Ottawa: King’s Printer, 1908.
- Canada. Canadian Army. Regulations for the Equipment of the Canadian Militia, 1908. General Orders of January, 1909 ; Pt. 1. [Ottawa]: Militia Council, 1909.
- Hitsman, J Mackay. Military Inspection Services in Canada 1855-1950. Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1962.
- Phillips, Roger F, F Dupuis, and J Chadwick. The Ross Rifle Story. Sydney, N.S., Canada: J.A. Chadwick, 1984.
- Units of the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps in the Second World War .
Canadian Army Service Corps
- Association, Canadian Army Service Corps. Sixth Post-War Convention : Royal York Hotel, Toronto, May Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, 1932. Accessed November 20, 2020. https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM1207495&R=1207495.
- Canada, Canadian Army. RCASC Diamond Jubilee Year Book, 1901-1961. Ottawa: Published by Directorate of Supplies and Transport, 1961.
- Gordon, G. Huntly (George Huntly). “With the Motor Transport in France : An Address Delivered to the Canadian Club, of Kingston.” Microform. Toronto Public Library. Accessed November 20, 2020.
- Manual for Use by the Canadian Army Service Corps and Quartermasters of the Canadian Militia /. Ottawa :, 1904.
- Pontifex, Bryan. Canadian Army Service Corps, 2nd Divisional Train. Toronto: Carswell, 1920.
- Tascona, Bruce, and DAle M Watts. United in Effort: Manitoba Combat Service Support History 1870 to 2015. Winnipeg: The Service Battalion Senate, Inc., 2015.
- Warren, Arnold. Wait for the Waggon: The Story of the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps. [Toronto]: McClelland and Stewart, 1961.
- Biggar, J Lyons, Lt-Colonel. “Transport.” Selected Papers from the Transactions of the Canadian Military Institute, 1902 12 (1902): 39–46.
- Biggar, J. Lyons. Manual for Use by the Canadian Army Service Corps and Quartermasters of the Canadian Militia. Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1904.
- Boyd, J. A, F. T Clayton, and P. E. F Hobbs. Supply Handbook for the Army Service Corps. London: Printed for H.M.S.O., by Harrison, 1899.
- Canada, Dept. of Militia and Defence. Regulations for Supply, Transport and Barrack Services for the Canadian Militia, 1909. Ottawa: King’s Printer, 1909.
- Canada, Dept. of Militia and Defence. Standing Orders of the Canadian Army Service Corps, 1910. Ottawa: King’s Printer, 1910.
- Canada, Dept. of Militia and Defence. Instructions Relating to the Provision of Horses and Transport on Mobilization. Ottawa, 1911.
- Canada, Dept. of Militia and Defence. Standing Orders of the Canadian Permanent Army Service Corps. Ottawa: King’s Printer, 1912.
- Great Britain, War Office. Railway Manual (War). London: HM Stationery Office,
- Harrison, Michael. On the Road to Victory: The Rise of Motor Transport with the BEF on the Western Front. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Pen and Sword, 2020.
- Iarocci, Andrew. “Dangerous Curves: Canadian Drivers and Mechanical Transport in Two World Wars.” In Canada and the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp, edited by Geoffrey Hayes. Kitchener: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012.
- McEwen, Andrew. “‘Maintaining the Mobility of the Corps:’ Horses, Mules, and the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps in the Great War.” University of Calgary, 2016.
- Tascona, Bruce, and DAle M Watts. United in Effort: Manitoba Combat Service Support History 1870 to 2015. Winnipeg: The Service Battalion Senate, Inc., 2015.
Regulations, Manuals and Technical Publications
- Organization, administration and equipment of His Majesty’s Forces in peace and war, 1916
- Vehicle Data Book Pt1
- Vehicle Data Book Pt2
- A summary of major changes in army organization 1939-1945
Fiji
- The history of the Fiji military forces, 1939-1945. R. Howlett, 1948
India
Ordnance History
- Technical Services: Ordnance & IEME. P. N. Khera, Combined Interservices Historical Section (India & Pakistan), 1962
- History of the Army Ordnance Corps.
New Zealand
Ordnance History
- A History of the Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps, By Major J. S. Bolton, Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps, Trentham, New Zealand, 1992
- Ordnance The Unofficial History of the New Zealand Ordnance Corps In the Pacific from 1940 Until Third Division was Disbanded In 1944.
- NZAOC Corps Orders, – 1922-1931
- Allan Huia Andrews : a distinguished career. A.H Andrews, Paremata, N.Z. : J. & R. Phillips, 2002.
- History of the RNZAOC (Draft) 1990
- 2013 Somalia Journal (Proof)
Books related to New Zealand Ordnance
- Desert wheels. S.H. Betts (Publisher) New Plymouth, N.Z.
- Peter. Craftsmen in Uniform: The Corps of Royal New Zealand Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: An Account. Corps of Royal New Zealand Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1976. Peter Cape
- Warrior Craftsmen, RNZEME 1942-1996.Peter Cooke. Wellington: Defense of New Zealand Study Group, 2017.
- Defending New Zealand: Ramparts on the Sea 1840-1950s. Peter Cooke. Wellington, N.Z. : Defence of New Zealand Study Group, 2000, 2000. Bibliographies
- Phenomenal wicked attrition, the reinforcement of the NZEF at Gallipoli
- Honours and awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War 1914-1918. Wayne McDonald.
Articles related to New Zealand Ordnance
- British logistics in the New Zealand wars 1845–66, Richard Taylor.
- The Imperial Garrison in New Zealand 1840-1870, Adam Davis.
- Unappreciated duty: the forgotten contribution of New Zealand’s Defence Stores Department in mobilising the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in 1914, Robert McKie
- The Barracks on the hill: A history of Mount Cook Barracks 1845 – 1979
Regulations, Manuals and Technical Publications
- Defence Act 1909
- Regulations (Provisional) for the Military Forces of New Zealand – 1911
- New Zealand Army Dress Regulations – 1912
- Regulations for the Military Forces of New Zealand. 1914
- General Order 213, August 1914
- NZEF Promotion Regulations Sept – 1916
- New Zealand Army Ordnance Department and New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps – 1917
- Regulations for the Equipment of the New Zealand Military – 1917
- Instructions regarding care, issue and accounting for Ordnance Stores, NZEF in the UK – 1918
- New Zealand Army Dress Regulations -1923
- Regulations for NZ Military Forces – 1927
- Charlton Self-Loading Rifle Manual – 1942
- NZ P37 – Care and Preservation of Camp Equipment and Camp Hygiene and Sanitation – 1952
- Index to NZ Army Scaling Documents -1973
- NZP107, Director of Ordnance Services, Procedure Instructions, Part 2, Field Operations, 1979
- Unimog Operating Instructions, 1980
New Zealand Military Camp Histories
- March past: a review of the first fifty years of Burnham Camp, John Storey and J. Halket Millar, Christchurch, N.Z. : Pegasus Press, 1973
- Historic Trentham, 1914-1917: The story of a New Zealand military camp, Available online
- Trentham Camp: Upper Hutt’s Untold Military History, Howard Weddell, Self-published, 2018
NZEF, NZ Division DADOS War Diaries
- August 1916
- September 1916
- October 1916
- November 1916
- December 1916
- January 1917
- February 1917
- March 1917
- April 1917
- May 1917
- June 1917
- July 1917
- August 1917
- September 1917
- October 1917
- November 1917
- December 1917
- January 1918
- February 1918
- March 1918
- April 1918
- May 1918
- June 1918
2nd NZEF, 2NZ Division ADOS War Diaries
- Jan – Mar 1940
- April 1940
- May 1940
- June 1940
- July 1940
- August 1940
- Sept 1940
- Oct 1940
- Nov 1940
- Dec 1940
- Jan 1941
- Feb 1941
- Mar 1941
- April 1941
- May 1941
- June 1941
- July 1941
- August 1941
- Sept 1941
- Oct 1941
- Nov 1941
- Dec 1941
2nd NZEFIP, 3NZ Division DADOS War Diaries and Reports
- Feb 1942
- March 1942
- April 1942
- May 1942
- June 1942
- July 1942
- August 1942
- September 1942
- Oct 1942
- Nov 1942
- Dec 1942
- Jan 1943
- February 1943
- March 1943
- April 1943
- May 1943
- June 1943
- July 1943
- August 1943
- September 1943
- October 1943
- November 1943
- December 1943
- January 1944
- February 1944
- March 1944
- April 1944
- May 1944
- June 1944
- July 1944
- Operational Report, Base Ordnance Depot, NZEFIP
- Operations of Ordnance Depots in Pacific
Sri Lanka
Ordnance History
- Online at: History of Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps
United Kingdom
Ordnance History
- A History of the Army Ordnance Services: Volume 1 Ancient history (Until 1856). Arthur Forbes Medici society, Limited, 1929. Online at: A History of the Army Ordnance Services – Volume One
- A History of the Army Ordnance Services: Volume 2 Modern history (Until 1902). Arthur Forbes Medici society, Limited, 1929. Online at: A History of the Army Ordnance Services Volume Two
- A History of the Army Ordnance Services: Volume 3 The Great War. Arthur Forbes Medici society, Limited, 1929
- A History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1920 – 1945. Brigadier A H Fernyhough (RAOC Trust 1965)
- A Short History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (First Edition). Brigadier A H Fernyhough (RAOC Trust 1965)
- RAOC Booklet McLeod, 1965
- A Short History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Second Edition). Brigadier A H Fernyhough (RAOC Trust 1977)
- A History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1945 – 1982. Major General L T H Phelps (RAOC Trust 1992)
- History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1918-1993. Brigadier Frank Steer (Pen & Sword 2005)
- 21 Army Group Ordnance – The History of the Campaign. Major J Lee-Richardson, R.A.O.C. (Published & Printed by 21 Army Group Ordnance, Germany 1946) The story of 21 Army Group Ordnance, D-Day and beyond. Planning, units and tasks involved.
- Arnhem, The Fight to Sustain. Brigadier Frank Steer (Leo Cooper 2000) The Untold Story of the Airborne Logisticians in Operation “Market Garden”
- The RAOC Gazette (Journal of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps). Available online at RLC Archive
- Ordnance: Equipping the British Army for the Great War. Philip Hamlyn Williams. Publisher The History Press, 2018
- War on Wheels: The Mechanisation of the British Army in the Second World War. Philip Hamlyn Williams, History Press Limited, 2016
- Supplying the British Army in the First World War. Janet Macdonald, Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2019
- An Unappreciated Field of Endeavor. Clem Maginniss, Helion and Company, 2018
- Supplying the British Army in the Second World War. Janet Macdonald, Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2020
- The Arms and Flags of the Board of Ordnance
Army Service Corps
- Agate, James. L. of C. (Lines of Communication) [Microform] : Being the Letters of a Temporary Officer in the Army Service Corps. Toronto : McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, 1917. http://archive.org/details/cihm_65397.
- Carter, Lt Col EE. “TRANSPORT System, The New; Its Principles and Their Application – ProQuest.” Journal of the Royal United Service Institution 56, no. 1 (January 1, 1912): 671–703.
- Fortescue, J. W, and R. H Beadon. The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army. Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1930.
- Hayter, Captain HR. “MECHANICAL Transport for Military Purposes, The Employment of – ProQuest.” Ournal of the Royal United Service Institution 54, no. 1 (January 1, 1910): 720–36.
- Williams, Gerard. Citizen Soldiers of the Royal Engineers Transportation and Movements and the Royal Army Service Corps, 1859 to 1965. Aldershot (Hants): Institution of the Royal Corps of Transport, 1969. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/82710.html.
- Winton, Graham R. “The British Army, Mechanisation and a New Transport System, 1900-14.” Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 78, no. 315 (2000): 197–212.
- Young, Michael. Army Service Corps, 1902-1918. Nottingham, UK: Partizan Press, 2018. http://www.librarything.com/work/edit/192661140?referpage=addbooks.php.
- Postcards of the Army Service Corps 1902-1918: Coming of Age, 2016. http://www.librarything.com/work/22464722/book/192702951.
- The Highland Division Transport and Supply Column Army Service Corps (Territorial Force) and Its Successors, 1908-1980. Privately, 1981. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1500014698.
- Waggoners Way: Royal Corps of Transport, 1891-1991. Quotes, Ltd, 1993. https://www.abebooks.com/9780860235217/Waggoners-Way-Royal-Corps-Transport-0860235211/plp.
- Grant, P. “Learning to Manage the Army – The Army Administration Course at the London School of Economics 1907-1914.” In A Military Transformed? Adaptation and Innovation in the British Military, 1792-1945, edited by M. LoCicero, R. Mahoney, and S. Mitchell, 99–111. Helion, 2014. http://www.helion.co.uk/published-by-helion/the-wolverhampton-military-studies-series/books-in-series/a-military-transformed-adaptation-and-innovation-in-the-british-military-1792-1945.html.
- Great Britain, War Office. Army Service Corps: Training – Part I. London: HM Stationery Office, 1909.
- Army Service Corps: Training – Part II Supplies. London: HM Stationery Office, 1909.
- Instructions Relating to the Provision of Horses and Transport on Mobilization. London: HM Stationery Office, 1910.
- Great Britain, War Office. Army Service Corps: Regimental Standing Orders. London: HM Stationery Office, 1911.
- Army Service Corps: Training – Part III Transport. London: HM Stationery Office, 1911.
- Army Service Corps Training, 1911. Part III Transport. London: H.M.S.O, 1911. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1500008264.
- Field Services Regulations, Part II. Organization and Administration. London: HM Stationery Office, 1912.
- Maginniss, Clem. An Unappreciated Field of Endeavour: Logistics and the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front 1914-1918. Helion and Company, 2018.
- Phillips, Christopher. Civilian Specialists at War: Britain’s Transport Experts and the First World War. University of London Press, 2020. https://humanities-digital-library.org/index.php/hdl/catalog/book/civilian_specialists.
- Great Britain, War Office. Transport Manual (Field Service), 1905. London: H.M.S.O, 1905. https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM731418&R=731418.
- Sloan, Geoff. “Haldane’s Mackindergarten: A Radical Experiment in British Military Education?” War in History 19, no. 3 (July 1, 2012): 322–52. https://doi.org/10.1177/0968344512440399.
Mechanical Transport
- Beatson, A. M. The Motor-Bus in War, Being the Impressions of an A.S.O. Officer during Two and Half Years at the Front. By A.M. Beatson … London: T.F. Unwin, 1918. https://www.amazon.ca/Motor-Bus-War-M-Beatson/dp/B00R8UIPFM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Motor-bus+in+war&s=books&sr=1-1.
- “Chapter CLX. Mechanical Transport in War.” In THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAR. Accessed October 28, 2020. https://fileupload.timesdev.tools/uploads/15e2411ce00aee493b8711ed3f88a7f5-mech.pdf.
- Fortescue, J. W, and R. H Beadon. The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army. Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1930.
- Harris, EM, ed. Short Memoirs of the Third Canadian Divisional Mechanical Transport Company. London: Privately printed. Accessed October 23, 2020. https://contentdm.ucalgary.ca/digital/collection/cmh/id/22575/.
- Harrison, Michael. On the Road to Victory: The Rise of Motor Transport with the BEF on the Western Front. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Pen and Sword, 2020. https://www.amazon.ca/Road-Victory-Motor-Transport-Western/dp/1526750430.
- Iarocci, Andrew. “Dangerous Curves: Canadian Drivers and Mechanical Transport in Two World Wars.” In Canada and the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp, edited by Geoffrey Hayes. Kitchener: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012.
- Law, Clive M. “Vehicle Markings of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.” MilArt (blog), August 5, 2014. https://milart.blog/2014/08/04/vehicle-markings-of-the-canadian-expeditionary-force/.
- Macdonald, JHA. “The Organisation of Power Traction on Roads for National Defence.” Journal of the Royal United Service Institution 51, no. 1 (January 1, 1907): 414–33.
- Slade, Arthur J. “Mechanical Transportation Mobilization.” Transactions (Society of Automobile Engineers) 11 (1916): 353–62.
- Winton, Graham R. “The British Army, Mechanisation and a New Transport System, 1900-14.” Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 78, no. 315 (2000): 197–212.
Manuals and Technical Publications
- Standing Orders and Regulation for the Royal Regiment of Artillery, at Home and Abroad, 1847
- Dress Regulations for the Army, 1864
- Army Equipment, Part 1, Cavalry, 1863
- Army Equipment, Part 2, Artillery, 1861
- Army Equipment, Part 3, Royal Engineers, 1866
- Army Equipment, Part 4, Military Train, 1865
- Army Equipment, Part 5, Infantry, 1865
- Army Equipment, Part 6, Commissariat Department, 1865
- The Queens Regulations 1868
- Regulations for Gunpowder Magazines, 1872
- Royal Warrant and Regulations for the Equipment of Her Majesty’s Army, 1876
- Treatise on Ammunition, 1877
- Dress Regulations for the Army, 1883
- Military Administration and Staff Duties, 1888
- Treatise on Ammunition, 1902
- Regulations for Army Ordnance Services Provisional Edition, 1904
- Treatise on Ammunition, 1905
- Ordnance College Regulations, 1907
- The Kings Regulations and Orders,1908
- Field Service Regulations, Part 1, 1908
- Notes on Artillery Stores Accounts,1911
- Ordnance Manual (War), 1914
- Field Service Manual, 1914
- Regulations for Mobilization, 1914
- Treatise on Ammunition, 1915
- Notes on the Ammunition for QF-13pr and QF 18pr Equipment, 1917
- Explanatory List of Service Markings 1918
- Notes on Ammunition for QF 4-5in Howitzer, 1920
- Ammunition Pocket Book, 1924
- Priced Vocabulary of Clothing and Necessaries, 1929
- Textbook of Ammunition, 1936
- Ordnance Manual (War), 1939
- War Clothing Regulations, 1941
- RAOS Part 7 Pamphlet 1, An Introductory Survey of Ammunition, 1942
- Handbook on Ammunition, 1945
- Inter-service Ammunition and Package Markings, 1948
- User Handbook Anti-Aircraft Ammunition 1949
- Joint Services Ammunition and Ammunition Package Markings, 1964
- Fifty years of hygiene in the British Army – 1948
The Army List
- Army List 1854
- Army List 1858
- Army List 1859
- Army List 1861
- Army List 1862
- Army List 1863
- Army List 1864
- Army List 1865
- Army List 1866
- Army List 1867
- Army List 1868
- Army List 1869
- Army List 1870
- Army List 1917
- Army List Dec 1918
United States
Manuals and Technical Publications
- Laundry unit, single, trailer-mounted. M-532
- Bath Unit, Portable, 8-Showerhead M1958
- QM0483 Bath, Delousing, and Laundry Operations in the Field
France
Logistics History
- A War of Logistics: Parachutes and Porters in Indochina, 1945–1954, Charles R Shrader. University Press of Kentucky, 2015
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