ARMY SERVICE CORPS, in the British army, is the commissariat and transport de partment. The corps is organized in 51 horse transport companies, 18 mechanical transport companies, 5 supply companies, and 4 remount companies. The transport companies are sta tioned at the various large garrisons at home and in the colonies, and all the transport serv ices required by the troops are carried out either by these companies or by civilian trans port hired from local contractors and carried out under the supervision of army corps offi cers. In large stations like Aldershot, where there are huge army abattoirs and bakeries, not only is the food issued, but it is actually pre pared by the army service corps. The me chanical transport companies are a modern creation; they utilize three grades of motors —heavy, medium and light — drawing from one to five 4-ton trucks. The remount com panies have the care of the young horses at the government depots, and are mainly com posed of men transferred from the artillery and cavalry. For active service the A.S.C.
units are formed into 'strains' and 'supply columns,° one column being attached to each division (infantry or cavalry), each brigade and each field army. The field bakery attached to each divisional train and supply column is capable of baking bread for 26,000 men. The strain thrown upon the A.S.C. in war time is enormous. By day and night a never-ending procession of A.S.C. trucks plough along the roads and through the mud behind the firing line, often traveling great distances from the base to carry food, clothing, munitions, medic aments and innumerable other items roughly classified as "stores' to the men on the battle field. His Royal Highness, the Duke of Con naught, is colonel of the corps.