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Office of the Commander in Chief: Monthly Returns to the Adjutant General
Catalogue reference: WO 17
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WO 17
This series comprises returns to the Adjutant General showing the distribution of each regiment at home and abroad, and its effective strength in all ranks, with the names of all commissioned officers present and absent. They give general...
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WO 17
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of the Commander in Chief: Monthly Returns to the Adjutant General
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Date (When the record was created)
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1754-1866
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises returns to the Adjutant General showing the distribution of each regiment at home and abroad, and its effective strength in all ranks, with the names of all commissioned officers present and absent. They give general particulars as to the health of the regiment, the dates of death of officers dying within the month and the numbers of men discharged for any cause.
From 1866 onwards the information contained in them has been abstracted and printed in the Annual Returns of the Army presented to Parliament.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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This series was worked upon as part of the Regiments Indexing Project, for which regimental names were added as index terms for the pre-1881 period. (March 2004.)
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For annual returns of the Army, 1750-1751, see WO 27 WO 379 WO 380
For complementary returns see:
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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)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Commander-in-Chief, Adjutant General's Department, 1701-1870
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2815 volume(s)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14228/
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