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War Office and predecessors: Engineers Muster Books and Pay Lists
Catalogue reference: WO 11
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WO 11
This series comprises muster books and pay lists of regiments. It provides a comprehensive means of establishing dates of enlistment, movements throughout the world, and of discharge or death. The first entry may show age on enlistment. An entry...
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- WO 11
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office and predecessors: Engineers Muster Books and Pay Lists
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1816-1878
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises muster books and pay lists of regiments. It provides a comprehensive means of establishing dates of enlistment, movements throughout the world, and of discharge or death. The first entry may show age on enlistment. An entry on the form "Men becoming non-effective", sometimes to be found at the end of each quarter's musters, shows the birthplace, trade, and date of enlistment of any soldier discharged or dead during the quarter.
From about 1868, at the end of each muster, may be found a Marriage Roll, which enumerates wives and children for whom married quarters were provided.
These musters do not include service in India.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also Armed Forces Service Records in
For the continuation of the series see WO 16
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Commissary General of Musters, 1660-1817
- Secretary-at-War, 1660-1855
- War Department, 1855-1857
- War Office, 1857-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 432 volume(s)
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The Royal Corps of Sappers and Miners, formed in 1812, consisted exclusively of NCOs and other ranks, the officers being in the Royal Engineers. The two were merged in 1856 as the Royal Engineers. Musters dated before 1856 relate, therefore, principally to the sappers and miners.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14222/
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