The Board of Ordnance was a British government body. Established in the Tudor period, it had its headquarters in the Tower of London. Its primary responsibilities...
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Factory Board (OFB), consisting of the Indian Ordnance Factories. In 2021, Government having corporatise the functions of the 41 Indian Ordnance Factories...
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Board of Ordnance and itself replaced by the Ordnance Board, now within the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom). Master-General of the Ordnance v t e v...
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The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army. At its renaming as a Royal Corps in 1918 it was both a supply and repair corps. In...
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associated with the Board of Ordnance, and later the War Department and the Ministry of Defence. It was exported to other parts of the British Empire,...
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British Army (redirect from List of Army Barracks around Aldershot)
been the Ordnance Military Corps (made up of the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, and the Royal Sappers and Miners) of the Board of Ordnance, which along...
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The United States Army Ordnance Corps, formerly the United States Army Ordnance Department, is a sustainment branch of the United States Army, headquartered...
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The Board of Ordnance in the Kingdom of Ireland (1542–1800) performed the equivalent duties of the British Board of Ordnance: supplying arms and munitions...
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the Board of Ordnance in 1597. Its head was the Master-General of the Ordnance; his subordinates included the Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance and the...
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Master of the Board of Ordnance, had provided most of the finance for Roy's Anglo-French Survey (1784–1790). The theodolite is designated as the Board of Ordnance...
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2015, the Ordnance Survey has operated as Ordnance Survey Ltd, a government-owned company, 100% in public ownership. The Ordnance Survey Board remains accountable...
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1853 under the auspices of the Board of Ordnance. The aim of the survey was to establish precise geographical coordinates of almost 300 significant landmarks...
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Order of battle at the Battle of the Monongahela lists the opposing forces engaged in the Battle of the Monongahela July 9, 1755. Major-general Edward...
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Royal Naval Armament Depot (category Ammunition dumps of the United Kingdom)
Ordnance Depots, several of which later became RNADs, were built by the Board of Ordnance (an autonomous office of the state, based at the Tower of London)...
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Royal Arsenal (category Royal Ordnance Factories in England)
constitution of the Board of Ordnance was formalised by Charles II in 1683, two Proof Masters were appointed, under the Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, to ensure...
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The Surveyor-General of the Ordnance was a subordinate of the Master-General of the Ordnance and a member of the Board of Ordnance, a British government...
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British Armed Forces (redirect from Armed Forces of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Department of the Master-General of the Ordnance. Forces War Records". Archived from the original on 5 October 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021. Board of Ordnance. Naval...
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Royal Artillery (redirect from British Army/Royal Regiment of Artillery)
and Board of Ordnance, but paid directly by the Exchequer. The regular artillerymen of the District Establishments were responsible for upkeep of the...
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Mallet's Mortar (category Mortars of the United Kingdom)
was taken with the idea and instructed the Board of Ordnance to arrange for the construction of two mortars of Mallet's design. Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding...
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report of then Commander-in-Chief of the Bengal Army, Lieutenant General Sir John Clavering, the Board of Ordnance was established on April 8, 1775. This...
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Robert Hawgood Crew (category People from the City of London)
1839) was an English civil servant who served as Secretary to the Board of Ordnance during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. His department...
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United States Code. Chapter 1: Council of National Defense Chapter 2: Board of Ordnance and Fortification (repealed) Chapter 3: Alien Enemies Chapter 4: Espionage...
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Royal Navy (redirect from Royal Navy of the United Kingdom)
period of economic austerity that followed the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the American War of 1812 (when the British Army and the Board of Ordnance military...
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Wright brothers (category American people of Dutch descent)
presentation to the U.S. Board of Ordnance and Fortification in Washington, DC, when he returned to the U.S. This time, the Board was favorably impressed...
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including the British Army, the others being: the Ordnance Military Corps of the Board of Ordnance (including the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, and...
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Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (category History of the Royal Borough of Greenwich)
first building was a converted workshop of the Woolwich Arsenal. An attempt had been made by the Board of Ordnance in 1720 to set up an academy within its...
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Berwick-upon-Tweed (redirect from Burgh of Berwick)
built (1717–1721) for the Board of Ordnance. Berwick's name is of the same origin as the word berewick, denoting a portion of farmland which was detached...
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Conscription in the United Kingdom (redirect from Conscription in the Isle of Man)
local-service only into the regular army and the Board of Ordnance Military Corps, under terms of service similar to those of the old militia. From 1894, recruitment...
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Robert Adam (category Independent members of the House of Commons of Great Britain)
took on the family business, which included lucrative work for the Board of Ordnance, after William's death. In 1754, he left for Rome, spending nearly...
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British Colonial Auxiliary Forces (category Lists of military units and formations of the United Kingdom)
and Miners), administered and funded under the Board of Ordnance, and the British Army (mostly composed of cavalry and infantry regiments), administered...
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