History of Army Pay Services From 1066 to 1992

"When and where then does this history have its beginnings? Some of the present-day duties of the Royal Army Pay Corps are as old as soldiering itself, as the derivation of the word indicates. We do not know when English soldiers first received pay, but we do know that financial inducements were offered when feudal obligation, as the means of raising armies, began to be replaced by other methods in late Mediaeval times."

Brigadier L G Hinchliffe MBE 1983

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"The creation of the Army Pay Department (APD), the Army Pay Corps (APC) and their later amalgamation in 1920 into the Royal Army Pay Corps (RAPC) introduced the expertise to record, audit and approve expenditure in Fixed Centre Pay Offices , however it took the experiences of  two world wars and a number of lesser conflicts  before such expertise was embedded fully at Regimental level!! 

The success and eventual demise of the Royal Army Pay Corps was driven by its Professionalism; Flexibility; Development and Acceptance of Automated Systems; and finally, as in the past, by the Government's desire to control the Defence Budget Expenditure!

I decided therefore to revisit the earlier histories of the RAPC produced by Lt Col Todd OBE, Brigadier Hinchcliffe MBE, Major General Kinahan CB and Major General Bray CB, together with later material produced by an academic Dr John Black and add in my own research to bring the history together in one place!! "

Major Nick Bayes RAPC 1992  

CONTENTS 

		Beginnings - An Introduction by Brigadier L. G. Hinchliffe MBE
		Notes on Army Pay 1066-1642 - from the Norman Conquest to Scottish Uprisings by Lt Col EE Todd OBE RAPC 1931/32
		Notes on Army Pay 1642-1711 - New Model Army by Lt Col EE Todd OBE RAPC 1931/32
		Notes on Army Pay 1711-1802 - Development of Army Financial Controls by Lt Col EE Todd OBE RAPC 1931/32
		New Military Finance 1797 - by Lt Nathaniel Hood 1804
		Boer War Medals by John Burn
		South African War and Financial Lessons by Dr John Black
		South Africa Lessons Learned - "From Chaos to the Dawn of System" By Brigadier L. G. Hinchcliffe MBE
		Notes on Army Pay 1802-1914 - From the Defeat of Napoleon to WW1 by Lt Col EE Todd OBE RAPC 1931/32
		WW1
		WW2
		RAPC Training Centres/Devizes
		Embedding of RAPC NCOs in Units
		National Service 1949-1960
		Pay Services Developments 1958 to 1983 By Major General O. J. Kinahan CB
		Worthy Down Years 1960 - 1992
		The End and New Beginnings? Major General P. S. Bray CB
		RAPC Virtual Museum (under construction!!)
		RAPC WRAC 1917-1990
		Miscellaneous Photo Gallery