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Series
War Office: Orders of Battle and Organisation Tables
Catalogue reference: WO 212
What's it about?
WO 212
This series contains the orders of battle and organization tables of all headquarters, formations and units of the British army serving at home and overseas during the Second World War. They are numbered papers in the War Office A series. The...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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WO 212
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: Orders of Battle and Organisation Tables
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Date (When the record was created)
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1918-1964
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the orders of battle and organization tables of all headquarters, formations and units of the British army serving at home and overseas during the Second World War. They are numbered papers in the War Office A series.
The series also contains extracts from orders of battle, piece numbers 491 to 514 for the Second World War and 693 to 700 for earlier and subsequent operations. These give the overseas locations of units during the relevant conflict and are a useful tracing guide to the war diaries.
All papers marked with security grades have now been declassified.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Pieces 1 to 692 are arranged geographically in the order United Kingdom, followed by North West Europe and then the overseas commands in alphabetical order.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For other A series papers, some of which will be copied here, see WO 33
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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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708 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1971 Ministry of Defence
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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)
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Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14418/
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