Cap badge Royal Army Pay Corps

The Royal Army Pay Corps (RAPC) was a former corps of the British Army responsible for administering all financial matters. It amalgamated into the Adjutant General's Corps in 1992.

Before the Second World War, the RAPC did not accept recruits directly from civilian life, but only transfers from serving soldiers who had been in the Army for at least six months.

During the Second World War, members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service and men of a "lower medical category" were often conscripted into the corps. Initially they received very little military training but after a discussion in Parliament were trained in armed combat, especially for those posted closest to the frontlines, to prepare for surprise attacks on headquarters