| 单词 | control department |
| 释义 | > as lemmasControl Department Control Department n. now historical a department of the British army dealing with supply of food, equipment, etc.The Control Department was formed in 1869 from the merger of the Commissariat (see commissariat n. 2a) and the Military Train, and in 1875 was split into the Commissariat and Transport Department and the Ordnance Store Department. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > administration and supply branches baggage1603 field train1692 Corps of Wagoners1802 wagon-corps1810 subsistence department1820 baggage-train1841 rear echelon1852 Control Department1867 Army Service Corps1869 A.S.C.1871 pay corps1876 Q1916 echelon1922 1867 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 May 8/2 There shall be two departments of supply, one under the control of a director of supplies at the War Office and controllers at the out-stations, to be called the Control Department, [etc.]. 1871 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 124/1 The creation of the Control Department, built up of military officers in charge of treasure, is incompatible with our Parliamentary system. 1876 G. E. Voyle Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) Supply Department, a branch of the control department.., now..replaced by the commissariat department. 1879 F. T. Pollok Sport Brit. Burmah II. 99 They fudged their accounts so as to give little or no trouble to the almighty control department. 1937 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. 1922–30 883 Privately educated, he entered in 1874 the commissariat branch of the Control Department, an organization of military officials outside the army, like the French Intendance Militaire. 2006 R. J. Wilkinson-Latham Discovering Brit. Mil. Badges & Buttons (ed. 3) iii. 69 This..was only a corps of other ranks, officers being supplied..from 1864 to 1875 by the Control Department, from 1875 to 1880 by the Commissariat and Transport Department, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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