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Office of the Commander-in-Chief and War Office: Adjutant General's Office: Disposition...
Catalogue reference: WO 379
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WO 379
Records of the location and movement of troops in regiments of the Regular and Territorial Army in the United Kingdom and overseas. Pieces 1-17 [ie the registers/fiches thereof] are thought to have originated in the Adjutant General's department...
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WO 379
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of the Commander-in-Chief and War Office: Adjutant General's Office: Disposition and Movement of Regiment, Returns and Papers (Regimental Records)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1737-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the location and movement of troops in regiments of the Regular and Territorial Army in the United Kingdom and overseas.
Pieces 1-17 [ie the registers/fiches thereof] are thought to have originated in the Adjutant General's department of the War Office but latterly were kept in the Ministry of Defence library, where they were probably used to answer historical queries about British regiments. The information in them dates back to 1674 although the documents date from c1737. Information about earlier dispositions was added in the twentieth century.
Pieces 18-129 are cards, relating almost exclusively to infantry units from 1914 to 1967 and including both Regular and reserve (including TA) battalions. These too originated in the Adjutant General’s department of the War Office. The cards are not complete and regimental/corps names are not always consistent, as many of them changed during the long period over which they were used by the Adjutant General’s staff.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The earlier records relating to the infantry regiments continue to use the numbers by which regiments of foot were known before they were given county and other names in 1881.
The bulk of the cards in pieces 18-129 are arranged in the order of the Infantry as it existed in the late 1960s. The arrangement of the rest of the cards, which include many miscellaneous units and formations, follows no particular formal order or precedence.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also records of auxilliary services in
For more detailed monthly returns see WO 17
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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)
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- Commander-in-Chief, Adjutant General's Department, 1701-1870
- War Office, Adjutant General's Department, 1870-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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129 cards and volumes
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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 1990 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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Historical details of regiments can be found in A Swinson, 'Regiments of and Corps of the British Army', (Archive Press, 1972), which is available in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14583/
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