Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the ASC but Were Too Afraid to Ask | Rob Thompson

In this talk, entitled 'Lemons, Chewing Gum, Whale Oil and Rivets: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Army Service Corps on the Western Front but Were Too Afraid to Ask' Rob Thompson gives a tour de force presentation about the Army Service Corps in the First World War. This was delivered 'live' to an online audience. The Army Service Corps tended to be the butt of the Western Front joke but without them there was no fighting or surviving. By mid-1917 the ASC had mushroomed into a gigantic supply and movement organisation supporting every aspect of the BEF. Guns and shells, rations and RE materials, bullets and boots, gum, thigh and even lemons and chewing gum, the ASC moved and supplied them all. Behind the front-line ASC units was the strange world of those staff officers whose work is never celebrated. Exotic figures such as the SMTO, AA&QMG, DT, and DDS&T were the men who organised this tremendous undertaking. But who were they? What did they do? How did they do it? This talk by Rob Thompson aims to shed some light on this ignored and truly forgotten world, without which military failure was guaranteed. We hope to host more 'live' webinars. If you would like to take part in these, please do consider joining The Western Front Association. If you enjoy this video, please subscribe to our YouTube channel ! The Western Front Association is a UK registered charity. The Western Front Association: https://www.westernfrontassociation.com Become a member: https://www.westernfrontassociation.c... Find 100s of Articles on the Great War of 1914-18: https://www.westernfrontassociation.c... Find a local Branch: https://www.westernfrontassociation.c... #greatwar #westernfrontassociation #ww1 #worldwarone