[1] These lists were used in both World Wars for specialists and those not allocated to other regiments or corps.

[6][7] A similar role, holding some recruits pending allocation to their units, continues today.

[8][9][10][11] Bermuda Militia Infantry soldiers absorbed into the Bermuda Militia Artillery before demobilisation in 1946 wore the General Service Corps cap badge instead of the Royal Artillery cap badge.

[12] From 1914, for the General List and later the General Service Corps, the cap badge has been the Royal Arms, with variously a Tudor Crown or St Edward's Crown, depending on the reigning monarch.

[13] As a result, a GSC nickname was "Crosse and Blackwell" after the firm whose tins and jar labels had a prominent royal coat of arms.