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Series
War Office: Officers Services (including Civilian Dependants and Civilian and Military...
Catalogue reference: WO 340
What's it about?
WO 340
This series contains records of officers services comprising registers relating to correspondence in the personal files of Army Officers.
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 340
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: Officers Services (including Civilian Dependants and Civilian and Military Staff Appointments): Registers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1870-1958
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of officers services comprising registers relating to correspondence in the personal files of Army Officers.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The registers are arranged in Long Number order. Long Numbers were not service numbers but were the references given to correspondence.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the indexes to the registers of officers' services see WO 338
For the correspondence to which these registers relate see WO 339
For related personal files see WO 374
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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)
- 13 volume(s)
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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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From 1999 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)
- No future accruals expected
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- A small selection of the registers were kept as an example of the administration of Army officers prior to 1922. 13 of the 329 registers of correspondence were selected as an illustrative example of at least one of each type of register, together with a scattering of the Officers registers, which were the majority, and one of four destruction registers.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14544/
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