Series
Loraine Papers
Catalogue reference: FO 1011
Date: 1836-1973
This series contains both personal and official papers, including photograph albums, of the diplomat Sir Percy Loraine (1880-1961). It includes...
Series
War Office: Home Forces: War Diaries, Second World War
Catalogue reference: WO 166
What's it about?
WO 166
These war diaries contain the daily record of events, reports on operations and exercises, intelligence summaries, etc, of headquarters formations and divisional, regimental and other unit commanders stationed in the United Kingdom.
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 166
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: Home Forces: War Diaries, Second World War
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1939-1946
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Description (What the record is about)
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These war diaries contain the daily record of events, reports on operations and exercises, intelligence summaries, etc, of headquarters formations and divisional, regimental and other unit commanders stationed in the United Kingdom.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
This series is arranged in the order of headquarters formations and areas followed by units of the Royal Armoured Corps and other arms of the service, not in order of precedence.
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 17955 file(s)
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14373/
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