What does ACC stand for?

The National Service Act, passed in 1948, said that every healthy man between 17 and 21 should serve in the armed forces for 18 months Men were exempt if they worked in one of the three essential services, coal mining, farming and the merchant navy, for eight years In 1950, the Korean War led to service being increased to two years The call-up ended on 31 December 1960 Private Fred Turner of the Army Catering Corps is credited with being the last conscript discharged on 7 May 1963

I did my parachute training alongside men of the Parachute Regiment, Royal Marines, Royal Artillery, RAMC, Army Catering Corps, RASC/RCT and many other regiments and corps.

In fact, he used to serve in the Army Catering Corps and for many years organised local poppy collections in Chorley for the Royal British Legion.

The former Army Catering Corps captain served in flashpoints around the world , including the Balkans, for 25 years.

He was a member of the Army Catering Corps attached to the First Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, while we were in Cyprus in the 1950s.

7 Royal Army Pay Corps 1 18 Royal Army Veterinary Corps 1 34 Royal Army Dental Corps 1 25 Royal Pioneer Corps 3 22 Intelligence Corps 1 27 Army Physical Training Corps 1 31 Army Catering Corps 3 19.

Six years in the Army Catering Corps followed before he joined High Down 10 years ago.

Sir Stanton Hicks, then setting up the Army Catering Corps, heard of it, visited me to see what it was all about, and wrote the product into he services ration scales.