Commander Personnel and Support Command

The Commander Personnel and Support Command, previously the Adjutant-General to the Forces, is one of the most senior officers in the British Army.

In the late 19th and all of the 20th century the Adjutant-General was the Second Military Member of the Army Board.[1] He was responsible for developing the Army's personnel policies and supporting its people.[2] The Adjutant-General usually holds the rank of General or Lieutenant-General. Despite his administrative role, the Adjutant-General, like most officers above the rank of Major-General, is invariably drawn from one of the combat arms, not from the support corps.

Headquarters Adjutant-General was based at the former RAF Upavon, now Trenchard Lines, Upavon, Wiltshire. On 1 April 2008 it amalgamated with HQ Land Command to form HQ Land Forces under 'Project Hyperion'.[3]

In December 2009 it was announced that the responsibilities of the Commander Regional Forces (i.e. responsibility for support) would be subsumed within those of the Adjutant-General to the Forces who henceforth would take responsibility for both personnel and support.[2]

In 2015 the post Adjutant General was eliminated and was re-designated Commander Personnel and Support Command.[4][5][6] HQ PSC is located on the second floor of Montgomery House in Aldershot and provides the Army’s personnel and institutional support. In order to achieve this it has assumed operational command (OPCOM) of the Army Recruiting and Training Division (ARTD), Army Personnel Centre (APC), Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS), Regional Command, London District and other formations / staff branches including DFRMO and the Directorate of Children & Young People (D CYP). In summary, it "provides personnel and institutional support to the Army."[7]

List of Adjutants-General to the Forces

Holders of the post include:[8]

List of Commander Personnel and Support Command

Deputy Adjutants-General to the Forces

See also

References

  1. ↑ The Army in 1906: A Policy and a Vindication By Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster, Page 481 Bibliobazaar, 2008, ISBN 978-0-559-66499-1
  2. 1 2 Army conducts Top Level Organisational Review Defence News, 9 December 2009
  3. ↑ Drumbeat
  4. ↑ "A new painting marks Army’s relationship with Scotland over last 100 years". Ministry of Defence. 7 October 2005. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  5. ↑ "Outlet" (PDF). Defence Fire Risk Management Organisation. November 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "Freedom of Information Act release from Joint Forces Command" (PDF). Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  7. ↑ "Land Forces senior, as of September 2015". Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  8. ↑ Army Commands
  9. ↑ Arthur William Alsager Pollock, The United service magazine (1882), p. 102: "The Adjutant-Generalship. — The appointment of Lieutenant-General R. C. H. Taylor, C.B., to officiate as Adjutant-General to the Forces, during the absence of Sir Garnet Wolseley on special service, is one that cannot fail to afford much satisfaction to the army." Wolseley was overseas to command British forces during the Second Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882.
  10. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27360. p. 6400. 1 October 1901.
  11. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27433. p. 3179. 13 May 1902.
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