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Office of the Commander in Chief and War Office: Quartermaster General's Department:...
Catalogue reference: WO 107
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WO 107
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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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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