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Paymaster's Ledger. "Army Works Corps Commissariat Department" Contains details of...
Catalogue reference: WO 28/207
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This record is about the Paymaster's Ledger. "Army Works Corps Commissariat Department" Contains details of... dating from 1856 Jan 25-1856 Aug 17 in the series War Office: Records of Military Headquarters. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- WO 28/207
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1856 Jan 25-1856 Aug 17
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Description (What the record is about)
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Paymaster's Ledger.
- "Army Works Corps Commissariat Department"
- Contains details of the pay, usually on a weekly basis, of men of the Corps for the period 25 Jan-17 Aug 1856. This ledger contains details of men mainly numbered from 138 to 452. They are not all in numerical order and some numbers are missed.
- Normally contains a double page per man, with his number. Most entries end with the payment of a gratuity.
- At the back of the book are brief wages and petty cash accounts.
- The index to this volume is contained in WO 28/209.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2208817/
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War Office: Records of Military Headquarters
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