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Series
War Office and Colonial Office: Civilian Claims to Military Compensation Boards,...
Catalogue reference: WO 148
What's it about?
WO 148
A representative selection of registers, indexes, and files relating to claims made by civilians to the Central and District Military Compensation Boards in respect of losses suffered by reason of the South African War, or for property...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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WO 148
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office and Colonial Office: Civilian Claims to Military Compensation Boards, South African War
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Date (When the record was created)
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1900-1905
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Description (What the record is about)
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A representative selection of registers, indexes, and files relating to claims made by civilians to the Central and District Military Compensation Boards in respect of losses suffered by reason of the South African War, or for property requisitioned by the military forces.
Formerly WO 39, with the addition of representative files of individual claims and registers (WO 148/16, 18-35, 41-44, and 46-48) which were later found in the Colonial Office.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- War Office, 1857-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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48 volume(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Colonial 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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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Passed from the War Office to the Colonial Office before transfer to the Public Record Office in 1933.
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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 key to match former WO 39 references to WO 148 references.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Records extensively weeded before transfer to the Public Record Office. Originally transferred as WO 39, the series was reviewed in March 1961 under s. 6 of the Public Records Act 1958. This authorised the further destruction of valueless material in the series. The few remaining records were transferred to this series.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14355/
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War Office and Colonial Office: Civilian Claims to Military Compensation Boards, South African War
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