Commonwealth Ordnance Services in Malaya and Singapore

• Headquarters Malaya Command • Assistant Director of Ordnance Services - Lieutenant Colonel G.C Evelegh, RAOC (also O.C RAOC) • Chief Ordnance Mechanical Engineer - Lieutenant Colonel J.P McLare, M.Sc., M.I.E.E., RAOC • Resident Ordnance Unit • 14 Section RAOC • Ordnance Officers and Warrant Officers • Ordnance Officers, 3rd Class • Major C.H.E Lowther, MC • Ordnance Executive Officers, 2nd Class • Captain F.C White • Captain J.J Scully • Ordnance Officers, 4th Class. • Captain C.H McVIttle • Captain R.H Finney • Ordnance Mechanical Engineers 4th Class • Lieutenant D Carmichael, M.Sc.(Eng.),.A.M.I.Mech.E. • Lieutenant H Ortliger • Lieutenant W.J Whately, A.M.Inst.C.E • Ordnance Executive Officers, 3rd Class • Lieutenant H.J Bale • Armament Branch- Assistant Ordnance Mechanical Engineers • Lieutenant H.J Howland • Warrant Officers • Sub-Conductor J.F Ardell • Sub-Conductor E.A.J Mackenzie • Sub-Conductor W.E Gale • Armaments Articifer Section (Fitters) Section • Serjant Major W.C Bliss • Armaments Articifer Section (Instrument) Section • Serjant Major B Ashworth == Malaya Command 1940–1942 ==

• Headquarters Malaya Command • DDOS Malaya – Brigadier G.C Evelegh • DDOS LofC – Colonel C.Hunt, RAOC • 12 Indian Brigade • 3 Mobile Workshop, IAOC • DDOS (Mechanical Engineering) – Colonel (Acting) Robert Langdon ROPER, A.M.I.Mech.E. April 1941 – 15 February 1942 (Prisoner of War) • Advanced Base Ordnance Depot, Kent Halt • Advanced Base Ordnance Workshop • Advanced Ordnance Depot Kuala Lumpur • Advanced Ordnance Depot Penang • Advanced Ordnance Depot Valdor • Advanced Ammunition Depot Kuala Lumpur • Advanced Ammunition Depot Penang and • Advanced Ammunition Depot Valdor • Singapore Fortress • ADOS – LTCOL C. H.McVittie, RAOC • Base Ordnance Depot, Alexandra • Base Ordnance Workshop, Alexandra (1937–1942) • Base Ammunition Depot, Alexandra • Base Ammunition Depot, Kranji • Base Ammunition Depot, Changi • Base Ammunition Depot, Nee Soon area • Base Ammunition Depot, Bukit Timah rifle range (under command of CAPT D. Lawson AAOC) • Base Ammunition Depot, Nee Soon area • Australian 8th Division • DADOS – LTCOL L.R.D. Stahle • 8 Division Mobile Bath Unit, • 8 Division Salvage Unit, • 2/3 Ordnance Stores Coy -OC – MAJ G. McKay • 2/10 Ordnance Field Park – OC – CAPT S.S. Woods • 2/10 Field Park Workshop – OC – MAJ H. Jarvis • 22 Infantry Brigade Workshop – OC – CAPT S. Hawkees • 22 Infantry Brigade Ordnance Field Park – OC – CAPT A.T.J. Owen • 27 Infantry Brigade Workshop – OC – CAPT Moore • 27 Infantry Brigade Ordnance Field Park – OC – CAPT C.F. Young • 8 Light Aid Detachments • 69 Light Aid Detachment • 73 Light Aid Detachment • 74 Light Aid Detachment • 84 Light Aid Detachment • 85 Light Aid Detachment • 86 Light Aid Detachment • 87 Light Aid Detachment • 88 Light Aid Detachment • 8 Division Mobile Laundry and forward decontamination Unit – OC – CAPT A.A. Smith, Klaung then Farrar Road, Singapore • Ammunition Instruction and Inspection Staff (OC – CAPT D. Lawson). • Ordnance Infantry Battalion (Jan–Feb 1942) • A Company, AAOC Personnel • B Company, AAOC Personnel • C Company, AAOC Personnel • D Company, RAOC Personnel • E Company, Personnel from 8 Div Sigs and AASC • British 18th Infantry Division • ADOS – LTCOL A.T. Hingston • 4th Ordnance Stores Company (400 men formed at Deepcut, UK December 1941) • 18 Division Ordnance Field Park • 18 Division Ordnance Workshops ==Malaya/Malaysia 1945–1972==

• Ordnance Depots • 221 (Indian) Base Ordnance Depot, Alexandra, Singapore 1945–1946 • 223 (Indian) Base Ordnance Depot, Alexandra, Singapore 1945–1946 • 223 Base Ordnance Depot, Alexandra, Singapore 1946–1949 • 3 Base Ordnance Depot, Alexandria, Singapore 1949–1971 • 7 Forward Ordnance Depot, Kuala Lumpur Malaya 1949–1957 • Ordnance Services Singapore RAOC residual unit withdrawn in 1975 • Ammunition Depots • 443 Base Ammunition Depot, Kranji Singapore 1945–1969 • 3 BOD Ammo Sub Depot 1969–1971 formed when 443 BAD closed • 35 Independent Infantry Brigade Ordinance Field Park, Kuala Lumpur, Kluang and Muar, Malaya, May 1955 -19? • 48 Gurkha Inf Bde Ordnance Field Park, Withdrawn from Malaya, 25 Aug 1950 reinforced with vols from Singapore and renamed 27 Inf Bde OFP ==ANZUK Force 1971–1974==

• ANZUK Ordnance Depot ANZUK Ordnance Depot was the Ordnance component, manned by service personnel from the RAOC, RAAOC and RNZAOC with locally employed civilians (LEC) performing the basic clerical, warehousing and driving tasks. It was part of the ANZUK Support Group supporting the short lived ANZUK Force in Singapore from August 1971 to September 1974. ANZUK Ordnance Depot was formed from the Australian/NZ 5 AOD and UK 3BOD and consisted of: • Stores Sub Depot • Vehicle Sub Depot • Ammunition Sub Depot • Barrack Services Unit • ANZUK Supply Depot, Note: Although an Army Service Corps unit, RAOC personnel were employed in it. ==New Zealand Forces South East Asia 1974–1989==

• New Zealand Advanced Ordnance Depot From 1974 to 1989 the RNZAOC maintained the New Zealand Advanced Ordnance Depot (NZAOD) in Singapore as part of New Zealand Force South East Asia (NZFORSEA). • RNZAOC Stores Section, NZ Force Workshops • RNZAOC Stores Section, 1RNZIR, Light Aid Detachment. ==See also==