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War Office: Military Secretary's Honours and Awards Branch: Distinguished Service...
Catalogue reference: WO 390
What's it about?
WO 390
The register consists of volumes containing details of appointments to the Order of officers of the British and Dominion armed forces, and includes a volume of records of the honorary appointment of officers of allied nations. In addition to...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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WO 390
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: Military Secretary's Honours and Awards Branch: Distinguished Service Order Register
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Date (When the record was created)
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1886-1945
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Description (What the record is about)
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The register consists of volumes containing details of appointments to the Order of officers of the British and Dominion armed forces, and includes a volume of records of the honorary appointment of officers of allied nations. In addition to details of appointment, the register contains a record of the disposal of insignia and warrant, and a large number of entries are annotated with the date of death of the recipient.
Records within this series are available to download as digital microfilm .
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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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- War Office, Military Department, Military Secretarys Division, 1870-1904
- War Office, Military Secretary, 1904-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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13 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Available in digital format only
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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. The original volume for piece 13 has not been transferred. The second volume for the foreign national awards is also expected.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Statutes of the Distinguished Service Order, instituted in 1886, require that a register of those appointed to the Order shall be 'kept in the office of our Secretary of State for War'. The duty of keeping the register of an award which was available to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines (and later to the Royal Air Force) thus fell to the Secretary of State responsible for the Army. He, in turn, required his Military Secretary to maintain the register, a task which, certainly during and since the First World War, has been carried out by the Military Secretary's Honours and Awards Branch - MS3 (later MS1b).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14594/
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War Office: Military Secretary's Honours and Awards Branch: Distinguished Service Order Register
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