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The Royal Army Service Corps
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The Royal Corps of Transport Association & Benevolent Fund
Secretary : Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) M J B Graham
PA : Mrs Helena Carr
Telephone : 01252 833483
Fax : 01252 833391
email : rascrctassn@milnet.uk.net
Past and Present
The Association, as we know it today, was the result of the formation of the Royal Corps of Transport (RCT) in 1965, but our origins can be traced back over two hundred years to the first South African wars of the eighteenth century, when a Memorial Fund was set up to look after the interests of returning veterans. The first major development was in 1927 when Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) clubs and funds were amalgamated to form the Royal Army Service Corps Association. At that time there were Branches world wide, from European countries in the West, through Egypt in the Middle East to China in the Far East.
Following the Second World War many new Branches were formed throughout the United Kingdom by men who wished to retain those bonds of comradeship forged in difficult times.
In 1965 the Corps was re-named the Royal Corps of Transport and the Association assumed its present title. Membership then included some ex-members of the Royal Engineers whose trades had been transferred to the new Corps.
In 1993 The Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) was formed by an amalgamation of the RCT, RAOC, RPC, ACC and Postal and Courier elements of the RE and the Royal Corps of Transport ceased to exist.
Today there are 75 Branches spread throughout the United Kingdom, in addition to which there are function-based National Branches, (Tank Transporter and Air Despatch) available to those who have seen service with such units.
Today's Association
The objectives of the Association are:
To foster mutual friendship
To promote esprit de corps
To organise social gatherings
To assist members to obtain suitable employment
To relieve by grants of money, members, their wives, families
and dependants who are temporarily in necessitous circumstances.
What do I get out of it?
Comradeship.
The opportunity to associate with those with whom you have plenty in common.
Esprit de corps.
Employment advice (if necessary).
Accident insurance.
You and your family can take part in all Branch social activities.
Relief of Distress
The RASC & RCT Benevolent Fund is one of the largest Army ex-service benevolent funds and exists to help those who have served in the RASC or RCT as regulars, NS men or embodied TA soldiers and their dependants if they fall on hard times. Such cases are usually investigated on our behalf by SSAFA Forces Help or The Royal British Legion.
What can I put into it?
The benefits of Association membership depend, as always in such organisations, upon the contributions made by the members in offering friendship, helping others, helping to run branches by joining the committee and being a positive team member.
If you valued the comradeship of your service in the Army and the standards achieved, help to maintain them by joining your local Branch.
Membership
Who can join the Association?
Anyone who has served in the RASC, the RCT or has been attached to units of the RASC or the RCT while serving in the ATS or WRAC.
Associate membership may be granted by Branches to people who have had long or special connections with either Corps or, in particular, with an Association Branch.
How and where can I join?
By contacting your local Branch Hon Secretary or:
The Controller
RASC & RCT Association
Dettingen House
The Princess Royal Barracks
Deepcut
Camberley
Surrey GU16 6RW
Those who do not live near a Branch may join the Headquarters Branch.
What does it cost?
Annual Membership £1 Life Membership £6
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