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Indian Military Widows' and Orphans' Fund

Catalogue reference: IOR/L/AG/23/17

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This record is about the Indian Military Widows' and Orphans' Fund dating from 1915-1958.

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Reference
IOR/L/AG/23/17
Title
Indian Military Widows' and Orphans' Fund
Date
1915-1958
Description

Family Registers 1915-1943 list all subscribers to IMWOF. Copies made in 1974 from the originals kept at ODA, East Kilbridge, Glasgow. Provides service details/biographical data on subscribers and their families. Copies of the registers numbered 4501 to 7500 and of the register of RIM/RIN subscribers, have not yet been received at IOR but have been allocated the references L/AG/23/17/28-34 prospectively.

Related material

Pension Payment Books, 1919-Mar 1968, see the series IOR/L/AG/21/36.

Held by
British Library: Asian and African Studies
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
27 volumes
Access conditions

Unrestricted

Administrative / biographical background

Established 1915, applied to regular officers of the Indian Army, to Indian Army surgeons and chaplains, to officers of the Royal Indian Marine/Navy and to the following categories of British Army officer: continuous service officers of the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, and Royal Army Veterinary Corps, officers of the Royal Corps of Signals and officers transferred from the British Service to the Indian Army Ordnance Corps. Provided pensions for their dependants.

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Indian Military Widows' and Orphans' Fund