RCOC 1 and 2 Detachments, England, 1940

[Mark W. Tonner]

Originally posted by David_Hayward
Mark, I am indebted. Do you take it that No 1 Detachment handed over to No 2 Detachment [when it says "from 1 Det"]? I thought that it meant that personnel were transferred from 1 Detachment to 2 Detachment presumably as more men landed and therefore "from 1 Det" meant "men transferred from 1 Det". Now I wonder if it meant that certain sections BECAME 2 Detachment. The result would be the same as the men formerly with 1 Det would have transferred with the formal unit change.

David;

Example: 2 Army Fd Workshop RCOC passed from under command & control of No. 1 Det RCOC to under command & control of No. 2 Det RCOC in May 1940

Same for the Base Laundry, RCOC Holding Unit, Veh Census Branch and RCOC MT Depot - all in May 1940

Same for Veh Assembly Sec and Veh Assembly Org, but in Aug 1940

Also David, to answer your earlier question: "Can anyone advise please as to whether the RCOC 1 and 2 Detachments would have been formed from personnel technically not within 1st and 2nd Canadian Infantry Divisions, but as the RCOC were ancillary, they were practically speaking "1st" and "2nd" Division troops?" the personnel for No. 1 and No. 2 Detachments RCOC were originally staffed from the trickle of RCOC reinforcements arriving in the UK at the time of their establishments.

Cheers