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Series
Royal Hospital, Chelsea: Disability and Royal Artillery Out-Pensions, Admission Books
Catalogue reference: WO 116
What's it about?
WO 116
These are registers of the award of out-pensions of the Royal Hospital Chelsea to soldiers discharged from the Regular Army or the Militia on account of disability. In each case a brief description of the pensioner is given together with age,...
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 116
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Title (The name of the record)
- Royal Hospital, Chelsea: Disability and Royal Artillery Out-Pensions, Admission Books
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1715-1913
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Description (What the record is about)
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These are registers of the award of out-pensions of the Royal Hospital Chelsea to soldiers discharged from the Regular Army or the Militia on account of disability. In each case a brief description of the pensioner is given together with age, place of birth, particulars of service and the reason for discharge.
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 entries are made chronologically according to the date of the Pension Board which decided the eligibility of, and the rate of pension to be granted to, each man; this was generally the date of the soldier's discharge from the Army.
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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)
- Royal Hospital Chelsea, 1682-1682
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 252 volume(s)
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Restrictions on use (Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
- Originally subject to 75 year closure.
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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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- There is, in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew, a partial name index (to WO 116/41-59, 125-129).
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Registers for 1914-1955, when responsibility for distributing pensions passed to the Ministry of Pensions, were not selected for permanent preservation.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14324/
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Royal Hospital, Chelsea: Disability and Royal Artillery Out-Pensions, Admission Books
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