Record revealed
Japanese Instrument of Surrender, 1945
After six years of brutal global conflict, this document marked the end of the Second World War.
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WO 25. B
Catalogue reference: WO 25/751
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This record is about the WO 25. B dating from 1828 in the series War Office and predecessors: Secretary-at-War, Secretary of State for War, and Related.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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WO 25/751
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Date (When the record was created)
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1828
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Description (What the record is about)
- WO 25. B
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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Descriptions relating to individuals have been created using information from a nominal card index relating to Army Officers' service compiled in the 1980s, which is not comprehensive and may contain some errors
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The item numbers in this piece equate to individual officers' case numbers on the original nominal card index cards used for creating the item descriptions in this series; as a result they are not necessarily consecutive and there may be gaps in the numerical sequence.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4397501/
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WO 25
War Office and predecessors: Secretary-at-War, Secretary of State for War, and Related...
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