Army Service Corps Base Supply Depots in the United Kingdom

This page lists the locations of supply depots operated by the ASC in the United Kingdom during the Great War. Employing a combination of military and civil workers, the base depots handled prodigious quantities and variety of foodstuffs and other goods.

  • Home Base Supply Depots
    • Number 1: Newhaven
    • 2: Southampton
    • 3: King’s Lynn
  • Base Supply Depots
    • Number 1: Liverpool (Sandon Dock)
    • 2: Avonmouth
    • 3 and Supply Reserve Depot: Deptford (Established on site of the former cattle market)
  • Main Supply Depots
    • Number 1: Reading
    • 2: Northampton
    • 3: Leeds
    • 4: Glasgow
    • 5: Dublin

    Source for most of this this information: “Allotment of Army Service Corps units“, a document held at the National Archives (WO95/5494)

    From “The Looker-On” of Saturday 11 March 1916 [British Newspaper Archive]

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