Non-Combatant Corps

Non-Combatant Corps
Active1916–1920
1940–1963
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch British Army
RoleNon-combatant support in the army (logistics, supply, engineering)
Size14 companies (Second World War)
EngagementsFirst World War
Second World War
Post-Second World War

The Non-Combatant Corps (NCC) was a corps of the British Army composed of conscientious objectors as privates, with NCOs and officers seconded from other corps or regiments. Its members fulfilled various non-combatant roles in the army during the First World War, the Second World War and the period of conscription after the Second World War.[1][2]

  1. ^ Felicity Goodall, A Question of Conscience: Conscientious Objection in the Two World Wars (Stroud UK, 1997)
  2. ^ Denis Hayes, Challenge of Conscience, Allen & Unwin (London UK, 1949)