Draft:AOC Museum

The AOC Museum is a museum in Jabalpur. In 1926,  approval was given to establish the AOC museum by the Quarter Master General in India at the Fort William Arsenal. 19 Rifles from Greece, Australia, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Germany, France and the United States of America lying in the Kirkee arsenal accompanied the order. Subsequently more exhibits were added from Rangoon, Quetta, Rawalpindi, Allahabad, Madras Arsenals and Agra depot. By 1930 the collection of the museum was considered formidable as every conceivable piece of small arms, cannon and other ordnance was part of the exhibits. In 1941 during the World War II the exhibits were packed and stored to make space for the storage of ordnance stores required for the war. After the war,  the Director of Ordnance Services, Major General R S Lewis, OBE directed the corps museum to be shifted to the Indian Army Ordnance Corps School (now known as the Military College of Materials Management), Jabalpur. In February 1994, a major renovation of the museum was undertaken on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the battle of Kangla Tongbi.