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Series
War Office: Campaign Medal and Award Rolls (General Series)
Catalogue reference: WO 100
What's it about?
WO 100
This series comprises original lists submitted by regiments and units of officers and men entitled to campaign medals and clasps. For the Royal Artillery there are separate registers of medals awarded for campaigns between 1845 and 1902. One...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- WO 100
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: Campaign Medal and Award Rolls (General Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1793-1984
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises original lists submitted by regiments and units of officers and men entitled to campaign medals and clasps.
For the Royal Artillery there are separate registers of medals awarded for campaigns between 1845 and 1902. One volume contains a roll of recipients of the medals issued for Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897, King Edward VII's Coronation in 1901, and the Delhi Durbar, 1903.
Records within this series are available to download as digital microfilm.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The volumes are, with one or two exceptions, arranged under campaigns and the lists within them are in order of units.
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- 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)
- 573 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14308/
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