The Pioneer magazine was first published in 1943 and continued to be published until the Corp's disbandment in 1993. These magazines provide enormous information about the Corps during these years. A full set of these magazines are held by myself, the Association HQ and at the Royal Logistics Corps Museum at Deepcut.

During the fifty years the magazine had 180 issues published. It started off as a magazine for 30 Group Pioneer Corps in the Faroe Islands and was sold for 50 ore a copy.

The first edition sold 4,000 copies and sold out straight away. The magazine eventually became so popular that it was written for the whole Royal Pioneer Corps. Reading through some of those early editions it is obvious that they experienced many difficulties including shortage of materials, paper etc. In fact it was felt at one stage that Issue No 4 (December 1943) might have to be the last but by sheer persistence, a rallying of forces and Issue No 5 appeared - but this in August 1945.

I had planned to get every single issue scanned in and available online, but space and time would not make this feasible. Instead we have resorted to scanning the text out of every issue and making it available to search through - this however will not be online for quite sometime and will be extremely useful for finding out about past events and old friends etc. However Major Starling has kindly supplied me with an index of the Corps magazines up to Issue 150, which has been included as a download at the end of this introduction.

All the past memorable occasions from the magazines are online in their entirety e.g. Freedom Parade etc. All the front covers of the magazines (except issues where covers remained the same) are online. I have scanned in the very first edition of the magazine from 1943 and it is available to download, in the downloads section.