[1] The early ordnance stores in the Indian sub-continent were established by the British East India Company for their logistical requirements.

By accepting the report of then Commander-in-Chief of the Bengal Army, Lieutenant General Sir John Clavering, the Board of Ordnance was established on April 8, 1775.

A report by the Army in India Commission, which was constituted in May 1879 by Lord Lytton,[Note 1] recommended the establishment of a centralized all-India organisation, headed by a Director General of Ordnance.

[citation needed] Overruling the report of the Esher Committee of 1919 recommended that a civilian member be in charge of civil business.

The inventory Army Ordnance Corps is responsible ranges from clothing (e.g. coats, sleeping bags, gloves, goggles, etc.)

[14] The Corps' regimental colours were awarded on 8 December 1970, by then Vice President of India, Gopal Swarup Pathak at the Army Ordnance Centre in Secunderabad.

The colour is a silken flag filled with scarlet, and the Corps' crest in the center surrounded by Ashoka and Lotus leaves.