Horse Guards. Letters and papers sent by the Commander in Chief, or the Secretary...

Horse Guards.

• Letters and papers sent by the Commander in Chief, or the Secretary at War, at Horse Guards to various addressees relating to the administration of the Army in the East. The majority of the letters were sent to the Commander of the Forces (Field Marshal Lord Raglan, General Sir James Simpson or General Sir William Codrington) or the Adjutant General (Brigadier General Estcourt or Lieutenant Colonel Honourable [William Lygon] Pakenham).
• The following subjects are covered: allowances, appointments, arms and ammunition, armourers, augmentation of regiments, casualties, cavalry strength, charges for shoeing horses, chartering of vessel to return officers on leave in England to their regiments in the Crimea, civilian servants, clothing, compensation in lieu of clothing, compensation for loss of horses en route to the East, corporal punishment, daily distribution returns, debts of officers, deserters, despatches, disposal of a soldier sentenced to transportation, discharge of soldiers, effects of prisoners of war, equipment, establishment of a Police Corps in lieu of the Mounted Staff Corps, farriers, general orders, income tax tables, leave, legality of sentence passed by Courts Martial on members of the Medical Staff Corps, manpower, manuals, medals (including directions regarding the issue to civilians), medical, message bags, moustaches, movement of troops between England and Ireland, neckerchiefs to replace leather stocks, officers messing charges when on board ship, officers ordered to remain in England, passports, printing press, postage stamps, posting of officers on promotion within the Rifle Brigade, promotion, recruiting, remittances by soldiers, Reserve Depot at Malta, return of officers and men to their depots, returns, rifled muskets and associated implements, Russian transport and supply system, sanitation at the port of Balaklava, schoolmasters, shakos, staff clerks, statements of officers' services, stationary, stores, training with the rifle, transports, underage and under height recruits.

Topics

Clothing

Internment

Labour

Army

Taxation

Medals

Nursing

Europe and Russia

Weapons

Ireland

Debt

Sewerage

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns