At its high point point in 1918, the AOC had 2,133 officers and 37,342 other ranks, split 33,906 in the store section, 2,075 armourers and 1,361 artificers. There were also numerous civilians working in ordnance departments, numbering 23,287 men and 6,385 women in 1917, and 4,386 men and 3,644 women in the army clothing department.
