Taking the points above into consideration, one tune was obvious and simply could not be left out…” Roast Beef of Old England “. This by itself was too short, so a search was made for a tune of national character to be used with it. Looking through some old books they came across the tune which was finally adopted: ” The Tight Little Island “. This is a good tune very adaptable for march time, composed in 1780 by Charles Dibden, and when combined with Roast Beef the national and special characteristics of the ACC were brought together. For musical reasons it was considered best to have Roast Beef as the second tune, so it was arranged in this way with a short introduction added. After the arrangement was completed for military bands and sent for approval to The Royal Military School of Music, the senior officers of the Corps were given an audition of the arrangement by The Royal Army Service Corps Band at St Omer Barracks in Aldershot. Their approval was unanimous. Later it became known as “Sugar and Spice” and was also the march of the Australian Army Catering Corps until they adopted their present march in the late 1980s.

Much discussion has taken place in the past seventy-five years concerning the origin of the Army Catering Corps’ colours. The answer is now unfortunately lost in time, but one of the colours of The Royal Army Service Corps was yellow and may have been chosen in view of the former associations of the RASC with army catering. The grey colour taken into use by the Corps was originally described as pigeon grey. At the 80th meeting of the Army Dress Committee on 27 April 1955, when consideration was given to the pattern, style and colour of a mess dress for officers of the ACC, the description grebe grey was first used. Senior officers of the Corps promoted to the rank of Colonel prior to 1959 wore a grebe grey band around the service dress cap and grey gorget patches on their collars. Although there had been no change of colour, grebe grey has been substituted by the trade for pigeon grey and the British Colour Council identified the Corps colours as grebe grey and bunting yellow. The grey band is above the yellow band on the ACC stable belt.