7-711: The Royal Logistic Corps Museum tells the story of logistic support to the British Army from Agincourt to the modern day. Based at Worthy Down near Winchester, the museum holds the collection of the Royal Logistic Corps and the collections of its forming corps, including the Royal Corps of Transport , the Royal Army Ordnance Corps , Royal Pioneer Corps , Army Catering Corps and the Postal and Courier Section of
14-559: Is an extensive medal collection, which features several Victoria Crosses and medals won at the Battle of Waterloo. Worthy Down Camp MOD Worthy Down is a tri-service establishment in Winchester , Hampshire, England. It forms part of the wider Winchester Garrison and houses the headquarters of the Defence School of Logistics and Administration (DSLA), as well as the headquarters of
21-730: The Royal Engineers . The museum collection includes objects and archives from the Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) since its formation and the collections from the museums of the Royal Corps of Transport and of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps , along with objects and archives from the Royal Pioneer Corps and Army Catering Corps. The RLC Museum was established in Princess Royal Barracks at Deepcut in 1995, and moved to Worthy Down in 2021. After an extensive refit and redesign,
28-464: The Royal Logistic Corps and Adjutant General's Corps . DSLA provides logistic support, personnel administration and leadership training to all three armed services. The site is north of Winchester, between the villages of South Wonston and Kings Worthy . An airfield was established here in 1918 for the Royal Flying Corps , and became RAF Worthy Down . In 1939 the airfield was transferred to
35-659: The Royal Navy and used by the Fleet Air Arm until 1950, then as an engineering training school. The site was handed over to the Royal Army Pay Corps in 1960 and became home to the Electronic Accounting Development Unit who housed their computer centre with its IBM 705 system there. The computer was used to process the 1961 UK census , which was the first to be processed electronically. With
42-697: The merger of the Royal Army Pay Corps into the Adjutant General's Corps in 1992, the site became the headquarters of the Adjutant General's Corps and a training depot for members of the Staff and Personnel Support, Education and Training Services and Army Legal Service branches . The Defence Food Services School was built on the site in 2009. In 2012 the RAF School of Administration moved to Worthy Down from Southwick Park , near Portsmouth . On 9 June 2014
49-574: The new RLC Museum now has over 50 display cases and has many more objects on display than before. Exhibits include the Rolls-Royce that Field Marshal Montgomery was driven in when he landed in France shortly after D-Day, Napoleon 's field bakery captured at the Battle of Waterloo , and a large collection of horse-drawn and motorised military logistics vehicles, bomb disposal vehicles, equipment and weapons. There
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