Great Britain. Army. Military Provost Staff Corps
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found: BL auth. file, 22 Feb. 2010(hdg.: Great Britain. Army. Military Provost Staff Corps; refs. : Military Provost Staff Corps; Great Britain. Army. Military Prison Staff Corps)
found: British Army website, 22 Feb. 2010:Adjutant General's Corps page (Adjutant General's Corps was formed on 6 April 1992 from the Royal Army Pay Corps, the Corps of Royal Military Police, the Military Provost Staff Corps, the Royal Army Educational Corps, the Army Legal Corps and the Staff Clerks from the Royal Army Ordnance Corps)
found: The Journal of the Military Provost Staff Corps, winter 1991/92:title page (Military Provost Staff Corps) page 2 (Provost Marshal's notes, by time of reading, the Military Provost Staff Corps will be no more; it will have become AGC (MPS), one of two elements of the Provost branch of the new Corps, the other being RMP)
found: The Journal of the Military Provost Staff, summer 1992:title page (Military Provost Staff) page 3 (its new title is Adjuant General's Corp (Military Provost Staff), or AGC (MPS); it has retained its cap badge and Association and the organisation remains the same)
found: bootcampmilitaryfitnessinstitute.com website, viewed 8 June 2022:Overview of the UK's Military Corrective Training Centre, MCTC, page (the Military Prison Staff Corps was formed in 1901 and renamed the Military Provost Staff Corps, MPSC, in 1906; it was responsible for discipline and guarding wayward soldiers in detention centres; the military prison had several locations until 1988 when MCTC Colchester was opened; in 1992 it formed part of the new Adjutant General's Corp, AGC, and was renamed the Military Provost Staff; together with the Royal Military Police it formed the Provost Branch of the AGC)
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2010-02-22: new
2022-07-01: revised
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