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Japanese Instrument of Surrender, 1945
After six years of brutal global conflict, this document marked the end of the Second World War.
Series
War Office: Depot Description Books
Catalogue reference: WO 67
What's it about?
WO 67
These depot description books give physical descriptions of individual soldiers with their dates and places of birth, trades, promotions in the service and how they became non-effective. The series includes returns of officers' services (with...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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WO 67
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: Depot Description Books
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Date (When the record was created)
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1768-1913
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Description (What the record is about)
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These depot description books give physical descriptions of individual soldiers with their dates and places of birth, trades, promotions in the service and how they became non-effective.
The series includes returns of officers' services (with succession lists) of the Gloucester Regiment, 1792 to 1866, which contain particulars of marriages and children.
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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 have been added as index terms for the pre-1881 period. (May 2004.)
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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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- 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)
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36 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14275/
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War Office: Depot Description Books
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