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Series
War Office: Grenadier Guards: Registers, Muster Rolls, Description Books and Indexes
Catalogue reference: WO 437
What's it about?
WO 437
This series includes muster books and pay lists, muster rolls, discharge registers, registers of deserters and those called to National Service, attestation forms, enlistment registers, description books and indexes.
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 437
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: Grenadier Guards: Registers, Muster Rolls, Description Books and Indexes
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1759-1999]
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series includes muster books and pay lists, muster rolls, discharge registers, registers of deserters and those called to National Service, attestation forms, enlistment registers, description books and indexes.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For muster rolls and pay lists for other units see WO 16
See also Armed Forces Service Records in
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- War Office, 1857-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 201 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2020 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 further accruals are anticipated.
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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 Grenadier Guards can trace its lineage back to the middle of the 17th century. This series largely relates to the 19th and 20th centuries, including a range of administrative material produced by the regiment and the War Office.
Records within this series provide a means of establishing individual dates of enlistment, movements throughout the world, and of discharge or death. From about 1868, at the end of each muster, may be found a Marriage Roll, which enumerates wives and children for whom married quarters were provided.
A variety of Registers are also found within this series, recording the discharge details of individuals, as well as a record of deserters from the regiment at various periods of time.
A number of attestation forms are also included, filled in at the point of enlistment which provide detailed information about the individuals concerned.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17859050/
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War Office: Grenadier Guards: Registers, Muster Rolls, Description Books and Indexes
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