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47-697: The Schuylkill Arsenal was built in 1800 to function as a quartermaster and provide the U.S. military with supplies. One of its most famous tasks was outfitting the Lewis and Clark Expedition . It was the third federal facility in the young nation. The arsenal made clothing and flags for all the military's needs for the next 150 years. In 1926 the Schuylkill Arsenal was renamed the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot. The original site at Grays Ferry Avenue and Washington Avenue

94-589: A concert with American composer Morton Gould , who conducted the band which was standing directly on the Canada–United States border . In September 1959, the band performed the Vice-Regal Salute for Georges Vanier during his swearing-in as Governor General of Canada in Ottawa . In 1967, the band was one of 17 Canadian Army , Royal Canadian Navy , and Royal Canadian Air Force to take part in

141-470: A junior ordnance officer (the battalion's ordnance platoon commander) under his direct command. He is in charge of all logistics issues in the battalion and also in charge of the battalion's headquarter's day-to-day life. He is commissioned as an officer by the ramatkal (the army's general chief of staff), and as a logistic officer by kalar (the army's general logistic officer). In large camps and higher headquarters (brigade, division and corps HQ), apart from

188-514: A neutral state, is not part of NATO) OR-7 in the senior NCO's category ( German : Höhere Unteroffiziere ). For technical questions, the QMS is subordinated to the Qm officer (Qm 2 Lt, Qm 1 lt or Qm captain incorporated in the staff of a battalion/group). The tasks of resupply are assigned at company level to the two SNCO's (CSM and QMS). The QMS is the material executor of the Qm tasks at company level and for

235-428: A veto power by a pirate ship's "Articles of Agreement" , in order to create an officer who could counterbalance the powers of the pirate captain. Pirate quartermasters, like pirate captains, were usually elected by their crews. It was often the quartermaster's responsibility to lead the pirate boarding party when boarding another ship. This was usually done from the quarterdeck (the place where two ships touched during

282-415: Is a military term, the meaning of which depends on the country and service. In land armies , a quartermaster is an officer who supervises logistics and requisitions , manages stores or barracks , and distributes supplies and provisions . In many navies , a quartermaster is a seaman or petty officer with responsibility for navigation and operation of the helm of a ship. The term appears to derive from

329-595: Is also the highest rank in the Sea Scouts, BSA , an older youth (age 13–21) co-ed program. A quartermaster (kwartiermeester) is in the Netherlands the assistant patrol leader of a Sea Scout patrol (Bak), in Flanders it is the patrol leader of a Sea Scout patrol (Kwartier). Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps The Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps ( RCOC ; French : Corps royal canadien des munitions , CRCM )

376-488: Is done by a qualified navigation electronics technician (NAV-ET). Along with the job of a Navy surface QM, NAV-ETs are also responsible for electronic systems that deal with navigation, internal communications, atmosphere monitoring, ship's entertainment systems, re-circulatory air systems (ventilation) and remote valve indication or manipulation. After 2004, the U.S. Navy disestablished the signalman rating (SM); signalmen were responsible for visual communications, and many of

423-587: Is more a control and supervision function: a staff officer for the respective commander. The Qm has a direct subordinate at company level: it is the company quartermaster sergeant. The company quartermaster sergeant is known since the 18th century as Fourier or Einheits-Fourier and has the rank equivalent of a senior non-commissioned-officer like the company sergeant major (since 2001 company chief sergeant major, CMS) and they are ranked (for better understanding in NATO-ranks even though Switzerland, as

470-539: Is written on a ribbon. The RCOC maintained a military band in its ranks up unit the Corps dissolution in 1968. The band was established as a unit of the Canadian Army in 1956 with an establishment of 55 musicians based at Longue-Point (later CFB Montreal ). Among its members included Gérald Gagnier , a bandmaster and composer who served in the band from 1956 until his death in 1961. Gagnier's uncle J.-J. Gagnier

517-553: The Canadian Armed Forces Tattoo 1967 in honor of Canada's centennial year celebrations . The Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps Association was a Defence Association authorized on 9 March 1945 and was recognized by the Conference of Defence Associations in early 1946. It was established as many senior RCOC officers recognized the desire for a post-World War association for former officers who had served in

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564-461: The IDF , the battalion quartermaster is also the commander of the battalions support company, known as the battalion headquarters company. In the standing army he is usually a captain, but the role is a major's role. In the reserve army he is usually a major. While most of the staff officers are directly under the command of the battalion commander, the quartermaster has a lieutenant, a logistics officer and

611-873: The Pennsylvania State Office Building in Philadelphia, the Experimental and Safety Research Coal Mines in Allegheny County's South Park Township, and the Cheney Farm, Hopewell Farm , and Chandler Mill Road Bridge in Chester County. The Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot was then officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places later in 2010. Quartermaster Quartermaster

658-865: The 18th century source, A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates , aboard a pirate ship "the Captain can undertake nothing which the Quarter-Master does not approve. We may say, the Quarter-Master is a humble Imitation of the Roman Tribune of the People ; he speaks for, and looks after the Interest of the Crew". Several quartermasters, notably among them Calico Jack Rackham , became captains after their previous captain

705-797: The Base Supply organization to become the Supply Company of 1 Service Battalion. A memorial in Cobourg, Ontario dedicated to the personnel who served as part of 26 Central Ordnance Depot, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps consists of a large depiction of the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps badge. When the Army, Royal Canadian Navy , and Royal Canadian Air Force were merged in 1968 to form the Canadian Forces ,

752-576: The French Navy. In the Norwegian navy, kvartermester is a rank equal to an army sergeant . In the Royal Navy and Commonwealth navies (Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Australian Navy, Royal New Zealand Navy, Indian Navy, and South African Navy), the quartermaster is the senior member of the gangway staff when the ship is alongside and is responsible for supervising the boatswain 's mate and

799-1057: The Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot on the National Register of Historic Places was reviewed by the Historic Preservation Board of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission at its meeting on October 6, 2009, along with applications for: the Hamburg Historic District in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, the Hamnett Historic District in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, the Newville Historic District in Newville, Pennsylvania,

846-513: The RCOC was responsible for maintenance and repair. Ordnance Field Parks, that held and stored everything from spare parts to spare artillery, supported field formation including the divisions and I and II Canadian Corps. The Canadian Ordnance Corps was redesignated The Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps on 22 March 1948. It reverted to the previous name on 18 April 1955. In 1960, 1 Ordnance Field Park moved from Edmonton to Calgary and in 1968 merged with

893-684: The Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps assumed these responsibilities and undertook to train and provide unit quartermasters and staff for all corps of the Canadian Army (Regular) except the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps and Royal Canadian Dental Corps. In recent years, the quartermaster has been a specially trained officer of the Royal Canadian Logistics Service , though CFR (commissioned from ranks) officers have been known to accept regimental appointments such as quartermaster. In

940-532: The Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. King George V , Edward VIII , and George VI have all served as previous colonels-in-chief of the corps. King George VI granted the RCE the same mottoes as the Royal Army Service Corps , which was one of its British equivalents. Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense (French, "Shame to Him Who Thinks Evil of It") was the motto used since 1937. It originated from the era of

987-626: The administrative Corps of the Army were deactivated and merged with their Naval and Air Force counterparts to form the Canadian Forces' personnel branches . The Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps was combined with the transport and supply elements of the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps to form the Logistics Branch . Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada was the last colonel-in-chief of

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1034-489: The boarding attack). The quartermaster ranked higher than any other officer aboard the ship except the captain himself, and could veto the captain's decisions whenever the ship was not chasing a prize or engaged in battle. The quartermaster also was chiefly responsible for discipline, assessing punishments for crewmen who transgressed the articles . According to pirate Captain Charles Johnson , ghost author of

1081-573: The command chain together with the CSM, directly subordinated to the company commander (captain) as staff NCOs. The Fourier is also the substitute of the chief sergeant major ( Hauptfeldweibel ), if considering the command platoon by itself. In the British Army and Royal Marines , the quartermaster (QM) is the commissioned officer in a battalion or regiment responsible for supply. By longstanding tradition, they are always commissioned from

1128-400: The control of the ship's navigator or other officer if there was no officer navigator. In the modern navy, a quartermaster is a petty officer who specializes in navigation. The rating abbreviation is QM. The symbol used for the rating and worn on uniforms is a ship's wheel . The colloquial form of address for a quartermaster is "Wheels". On U.S. Navy submarines, the job of a quartermaster

1175-815: The inception of the Order of the Garter , an order of chivalry which was the original user of this motto. The motto is also used by the Grenadier Guards , the Royal Army Service Corps , the Royal Australian Army Service Corps , and the Hauraki Regiment . The Canadian Ordnance Corps was redesignated the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps on 3 Nov 1919. As a matter of honour, King George V , the Canadian monarch bestowed on

1222-534: The now-Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps was not authorized until 1912, and redesignated with the Royal prefix in 1936 (probably on 29 April 1936). During the Second World War , the corps had a strength of 35,000 military personnel, not including the thousands of civilian personnel employed at corps installations. They procured all the material goods required by the Army, from clothing to weapons. Up until 1944,

1269-399: The organization the right to use the prefix royal before its name. The badge of the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps consists of a belt, with a Kings Crown on top, with the text "Honi Soit qui mal y pense" with six maple leaves around the edge. At the centre of the belt is a shield superimposed with three cannonballs and three cannons. At the bottom the text "Royal Canadian Army Service Corps"

1316-470: The other enlisted man's "command rating" being the boatswain's mate. While the rank is used in a number of NATO countries , it is ranked differently depending on the country. Pirates during the Golden Age of Piracy elevated the rank of quartermaster to much higher powers and responsibilities than it had aboard non-pirate merchant or naval vessels. On pirate ships, the quartermaster was often granted

1363-608: The others being the Transportation Corps and the Ordnance Corps. In Belgium, the naval ranks of quartermaster, chief quartermaster, and first chief quartermaster are used. In the French Navy , Quartermaster ( Quartier-maître ) is a junior rank, equivalent to a French Army and Air Force Corporal . The French rank has nothing to do with supplies. This rank is also used by many other navies based on

1410-611: The personnel and their responsibilities were incorporated in the QM rating. The U.S. Navy rating dealing with supply and logistics is logistics specialist (LS) which would be equivalent to the Army quartermaster. The structure of ranks and job specialties of the United States Coast Guard is similar to that of the United States Navy. The Coast Guard used a quartermaster rating until the summer of 2003, when

1457-582: The position was replaced by the new appointment of troop sergeant major , with the cavalry adopting commissioned, regimental quartermasters as described above. From Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps standing orders: For many centuries – indeed perhaps as long as there have been organized military units – the appointment of quartermaster has been significant in armies. Until recent times, the British Army almost invariably rewarded an outstanding RSM by appointing him quartermaster of his battalion, thus ensuring

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1504-582: The rank of 2WO) without regarding his actual rank. Quartermasters are identified (in all IDF branches) by a blue and white aiguillette on the left shoulder. In the Swiss Army , a quartermaster (Qm) is an officer (from 2 Lt. to colonel) in charge with the coordination of the Kommissariatsdienst (accountancy, post-service, fuel resupply, "all sort of food" resupply and others) of a battalion , regiment and brigade / division . His function

1551-446: The ranks and hold the rank of captain or major (although until the 20th century the quartermaster was usually a lieutenant ). Some units also have a technical quartermaster, who is in charge of technical stores. The quartermaster is assisted by the regimental quartermaster sergeant (RQMS) (and the technical quartermaster by the technical quartermaster sergeant (TQMS)) and a staff of storemen . The QM, RQMS and storemen are drawn from

1598-581: The rating was merged into the boatswain's mate rating. The Coast Guard's quartermasters had the same duties as the Navy's, with the exception that—at some point after World War II—the Coast Guard folded the duties of its signalman rating into the quartermaster rating. Also, in recent decades, quartermaster was one of the only two Coast Guard enlisted ratings permitted to hold command of a small boat station (command otherwise being reserved for officers), with

1645-512: The regiment or corps in which they work, not from the Royal Logistic Corps (or its predecessors), which is responsible for issuing and transporting supplies to them. Units which specialize in supply are known as "supply" units, not "quartermaster" units, and their personnel as suppliers or logistics specialists ("log specs"). Traditionally, the quartermaster had previously served as RQMS and then regimental sergeant major (RSM) of

1692-885: The responsibilities of the Canadian Stores Department were transferred to the Ordnance Stores Corps. In 1907 it was renamed the Canadian Ordnance Corps (COC). In the First World War the COC, in conjunction with the CASC , was supporting 400,000 men, 150,000 French civilians and 25,000 horses. In 1919, for recognition of outstanding service during the War, King George V authorized the “Royal” designation. The Militia component of

1739-418: The security of the brow. They are also responsible for steering the ship while at sea. The quartermaster is the enlisted member in charge of the watch-to-watch navigation and the maintenance, correction, and preparation of nautical charts and navigation publications. They are also responsible for navigational instruments and clocks and the training of ship's lookouts and helmsmen. They perform these duties under

1786-500: The staff officer in charge of logistics, there is also a role defined mostly as "camp commander", who is in charge of the HQ logistic issues, ceremonies and parades and discipline. These duties differ slightly in the air force and navy. The ranks of IDF quartermasters vary from sergeant major to CWO, depending on the size of the camp. Most soldiers refer to him as rasar (the Hebrew acronym for

1833-576: The term was first coined in Germany as Quartiermeister and initially denoted a court official with the duty of preparing the monarch's sleeping quarters. In the 17th century, it started to be used in various militaries in the sense of organizing supplies. From at least the English Civil War period until 1813, the quartermaster was the senior NCO in a British cavalry troop, in which context he had nothing to do with supply. In that year,

1880-698: The title of a German royal official, the Quartiermeister . This term meant "master of quarters" (where "quarters" refers to lodging or accommodation). Alternatively, it could have been derived from "master of the quarterdeck " where the helmsman and captain controlled the ship. The term's first use in English was as a naval term, which entered English in the 15th century via the equivalent French and Dutch naval titles quartier-maître and kwartier-meester , respectively. The term began to refer to army officers in English around 1600. For land armies,

1927-536: The unit an experienced officer who knew the unit thoroughly and would prove difficult to mislead or beguile. [The past tense is in fact incorrect, as the British Army still has this policy.] As the complexities of the Army and its material increased, an officer with greater professional technical knowledge of the problems that surround stores management was required for the Quartermaster's duties. Under authority of Canadian Army Order 201 – 16 dated 8 February 1954,

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1974-714: The unit of which he later became quartermaster. In the United States Army , the term is used to describe all supply personnel and units that are part of the United States Army Quartermaster Corps (USQMC) which was formerly the Quartermaster Department. It is a Sustainment, formerly combat service support (CSS), branch of the United States Army. It is also one of three U.S. Army logistics branches,

2021-547: Was an administrative corps of the Canadian Army . The Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps RCOC can trace its roots back to the Canadian Stores Department. Formed in 1871, the Canadian Stores Department was a civil department of the Canadian Government. This civil service was charged with control of forts, ammunition, stores, buildings and an ordnance depot left by the departing British Military. On 1 July 1903

2068-403: Was closed and the site was razed in 1963. The functions of the Quartermaster Depot were all moved to West Oregon Avenue & South 22nd Street In 1965 the operation was reorganized into the Defense Personnel Support Center. In 1993 the government closed the textile factory and moved the remaining part of the South Philadelphia operation to the Naval Support Station in Northeast Philadelphia . It

2115-408: Was killed or deposed. A Scout quartermaster within the Scout movement is responsible for maintaining all the normal camping supplies in a Scout troop or pack. This may include, but is not limited to, camping supplies, tents, "chuck boxes" (containers holding food and cooking supplies), stoves, camp fuel (propane, naphtha , etc.), tarps, camping trailers, dining flys, etc. The Quartermaster Award

2162-420: Was notably the founder of the Canadian Grenadier Guards Band . Other notable members included Charles Villeneuve and Laurence Henry Hicks . In mid-June 1944, the band performed in Normandy following the D-Day landings, during which the director of music recalled that "we were mobbed by the troops particularly after we played the Colonel Bogey March which everyone enjoyed". In 1958, the band took part in

2209-425: Was renamed the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP) in 1998, and was renamed Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, or DLA Troop Support, in 2010. The Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot consists of eleven extant buildings built between 1939 and 1942. The buildings are of varying heights and sizes, but are consistently clad in tan or brown brick and are in the Art Deco -style. Philadelphia's application to place

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