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Office of the Commander in Chief and War Office: Quartermaster General's Department:...
Catalogue reference: WO 107
What's it about?
WO 107
Papers of the Quartermaster General relating to trooping programmes and to various expeditions and to the First and Second World Wars.
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 107
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of the Commander in Chief and War Office: Quartermaster General's Department: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1763-1946
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Description (What the record is about)
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Papers of the Quartermaster General relating to trooping programmes and to various expeditions and to the First and Second World Wars.
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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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- Commander-in-Chief, Quartermaster General, 1667-1870
- War Office, Commander-in-Chiefs Military Department, Adjutant Generals Division, Quartermaster General, 1870-1888
- War Office, Commander-in-Chiefs Military Department, Quartermaster General, 1888-1895
- War Office, Department of the Quartermaster General, 1895-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 297 boxes, files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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War Office
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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/C14315/
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