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Series
War Office: First World War and Army of Occupation War Diaries
Catalogue reference: WO 95
What's it about?
WO 95
This series consists of war diaries for British and colonial units serving in theatres of operations between 1914 and 1922, including Russia, at home, and in the colonies, and British military missions, and Armies of Occupation between 1919 and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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WO 95
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: First World War and Army of Occupation War Diaries
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Date (When the record was created)
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1914-1923
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of war diaries for British and colonial units serving in theatres of operations between 1914 and 1922, including Russia, at home, and in the colonies, and British military missions, and Armies of Occupation between 1919 and 1922. No diaries for the campaign in South West Africa in 1914-1915 are included in this series because no British units participated; operations were conducted under the auspices of the South African armed forces.
The diaries contain daily reports on operations, intelligence summaries and other pertinent material. The range of dates shown for individual items does not mean there is a document inside the file for each day between the two covering dates.
Digital copies of selected British Army war diaries 1914-1922 can be searched and downloaded.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For intelligence summaries of information and reports on military, economic and political matters, see WO 157
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Maps extracted from these diaries are now in
As many maps included in these diaries and certain war diaries containing particularly confidential material were extracted it is thought that these reasons account for the absence of some appendices referred to on the covers of many diaries.
Extracted war diaries with especially confidential material were put into
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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5500 boxes and files
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Available in digital format unless otherwise stated
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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)
- A contents list and Index to Battalions etc, and a list of the Brigades and Divisions to which Battalions were attached are in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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From 1907 units in active service were required to keep a daily record of events by the Field Service Regulations Part II. These records are called War Diaries or, occasionally, Intelligence Summaries.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- A set of divisional orders of battle for Belgium, France and Germany, in six parts, is held at the Reference Desk; entitled History of the Great War. Order of Battle of Divisions, (HMSO, 1935-1945). This is arranged by division, not by unit. It includes a brief history of Armies, Corps and Divisions serving on the Western Front.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14303/
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