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Page created 1 November 2000. Corrected and updated 14.07.2006
 
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Army Legal Corps
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by A. Melville-Brown
United Kingdom 
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How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
Judge Advocate General's Office
1948.10.01 Army Legal Services Staff
1978.11.01 Army Legal Corps
1992.04.06 Army Legal Services Branch, Adjutant General's Corps
(retaining ALC cap badge)
crown Army Legal Service (Army site)
pip Army Legal Service, by Glenvil Roberts.
   
HQ and Depot:
  MoD, Empress State Building, Lillie Road, London [to 1992]
Directorate of Army Legal Services, Trenchard Lines, Upavon, Pewsey, Wilts. [1992-present]
   
   

Note: battle honours are not awarded to this corps.

 
Note: this corps does not carry Colours.
   
Badges: The Figure of Justice superimposed upon the Globe surmounted by the Royal Crest; behind the Globe Crossed Swords with blades upermost on a black ground within a circle inscribed ARMY LEGAL SERVICES (changed 1978 to ARMY LEGAL CORPS); on a scroll below JUSTICIA IN ARMIS.
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Colonel Commandant, Army Legal Corps:
1978.11.01 Brig. Richard Clarence Halse, CBE
1982.01.18 Lt-Gen. Sir Paul Travers, KCB [also RCT]
1983.09.17 Gen. Sir Joseph David Frederick Mostyn, KCB, CBE, ADC Gen.
1988.10.01 Gen. Sir Robert Pascoe, KCB, MBE, ADC Gen.
1991.01.01 Maj-Gen. Samuel Cowan, CBE
Deputy Colonel Commandant, Adjutant General's Corps [Legal Services]:
1992.04.06 Maj-Gen. Samuel Cowan, CBE
1996.01.01 Maj-Gen. His Honour Judge David Henry Deering Selwood
2004.01.01 Maj-Gen. His Honour Judge Gordon Risius, CB
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Motto: Justicia in armis
Nicknames: none
Anniversaries: construction sign
Freedoms: construction sign
Marches: quick: Scales of Justice
Musicians: construction sign
Mascot: construction sign
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
Canada flag Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Armed Forces
Canada flag Legal Branch, Canadian Forces
Australia flag The Australian Army Legal Corps
 
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monument Adjutant General's Corps Museum Collection, Winchester (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
   
   
Regimental Journal:
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Full Histories:
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Short Histories:
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