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War Office: Secretary-at-War, Correspondence, Very Old Series (VOS) and Old Series...
Catalogue reference: WO 43
What's it about?
WO 43
This series comprises the bulk of the surviving in-letters of the Secretary-at-War's Office between about 1809 and 1857, with some earlier and later papers. Both VOS and OS papers were very heavily weeded from 1904 to 1906, and a large quantity...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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WO 43
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: Secretary-at-War, Correspondence, Very Old Series (VOS) and Old Series (OS)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1803-1857
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises the bulk of the surviving in-letters of the Secretary-at-War's Office between about 1809 and 1857, with some earlier and later papers. Both VOS and OS papers were very heavily weeded from 1904 to 1906, and a large quantity of papers destroyed.
In addition to the large proportion of papers relating to particular officers and soldiers (often in connection with half pay, pensions, annuities and allowances) this series reflects the very wide variety of business both at home and abroad which was conducted by the Secretary-at-War and his Office.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The series was originally arranged in 107 bundles. They have been relisted individually and, to avoid confusion with the earlier references, have been numbered 108 to 1059. The old foliation has been retained, with the result that few pieces in the new arrangement appear to contain a complete sequence of folio numbers.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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The accompanying correspondence, where it has survived, remains in this series. Original certificates of the births, baptisms, marriages and deaths of officers and their families from 1755, which accompanied the correspondence in this series, were extracted and are in
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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VOS and OS file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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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)
- Secretary-at-War, 1660-1855
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1059 bundle(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- There are a number of finding aids at The National Archives: a key from former piece number (pieces 1-107) to new (pieces 108-1059); a printed Catalogue of War Office Old Series and Very Old Series Papers.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14252/
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