As a higher ranking member of a clan, you are responsible to hand out equipment from the armoury. Problem is that sometimes you have the same item more than once and don't know who is the owner. Considering lower ranked members cannot just take whatever is available, but need someone to hand it out, it can be important to know which item to hand out. At least if the quartermaster is not online 24/7 and the item is withdrawn by the owner, someone could not have access as intended.
It should not be hard to implement another tab that displays the owner, because all items are bound to a character anyway.