Labour Corps (British Army)

This article is about the unit formed of soldiers from the United Kingdom. For the unit formed of Chinese non-combatants on the Western Front, see Chinese Labour Corps.

The Labour Corps was a British Army force formed in 1917 for manual and skilled labour on the Western Front and Salonika during the First World War. In previous centuries the British Army had fulfilled this role through the Royal Pioneer Corps (1762–1763), the Corps of Pioneers (1795–1800) and the Army Works Corps (1855-c.1856). Though it disbanded in 1921, it is often seen as the predecessor to the Royal Pioneer Corps of the Second World War.[1]

  1. ^ "Royal Pioneer Corps". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 13 January 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2020.