Record revealed
Japanese Instrument of Surrender, 1945
After six years of brutal global conflict, this document marked the end of the Second World War.
Series
Ordnance Office and War Office: Correspondence
Catalogue reference: WO 44
What's it about?
WO 44
Original correspondence of the Ordnance Office, which, except for a small section of miscellaneous letters, is almost entirely of nineteenth century date. The series also contains a small amount of War Office correspondence after the dissolution...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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WO 44
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ordnance Office and War Office: Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1682-1873
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Description (What the record is about)
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Original correspondence of the Ordnance Office, which, except for a small section of miscellaneous letters, is almost entirely of nineteenth century date. The series also contains a small amount of War Office correspondence after the dissolution of the Ordnance Office in 1855 and the proceedings of the Royal Military Canal Commissioners.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The series is arranged in four broad categories: places (WO 44/1-497), offices (WO 44/498-531), subjects (WO 44/532-713) and miscellaneous (WO 44/714-732).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the related registers to the correspondence of the Board of Ordnance and Master General of the Ordnance see WO 45
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
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- Ordnance Office, 1683-1855
- War Department, 1855-1857
- War Office, 1857-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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732 volume(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, in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew, indexes to services of officers; services of non-commissioned officers and men; inventors who submitted inventions to the Ordnance Office down to the year 1855; and to in-letters, by subject.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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The letters in this series have been weeded.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14253/
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