The Adjutant General's Corps is one of the largest Corps in the British Army and deals with its most vital resource - its personnel. It achieves this by employing high quality professional soldiers who in addition to being soldiers have secondary trades in Administration, Policing, Education and Law.
Wherever the Army is located in both peace and war you will find members of the AGC - without AGC support the Field Army cannot function.
Pay was dealt with by a number of varying civilian and military individuals until in 1797 a special Paymasters commission was instituted.
The Corps demonstrated its use in many conflicts, most notably the Falkland and the Gulf where as well as providing financial service to all three services RAPC personnel were used in Operations Rooms as Watchkeepers, as casualty clearing station personnel, stretcher bearers and in charge of the documentation and the guarding of enemy prisoners.
On 6 April 1992 the Corps was disbanded and its functions absorbed in to the Adjutant General's Corps.
Corps members saw active service in the Middle East, South East Asia, Europe, PNG and adjoining islands, and in Darwin, under the guidance of the Chief Paymaster of 2AIF, Brig Guy Moore.
During the majority of this period in the life of the PayCorps, the director was the paymaster-in-chief - a civilian position.
Subsequent directors were all regular officers from the arms corps until the position of corps director was disestablished in December 1997.
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