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  War Office and predecessors: Engineers Muster Books and Pay Lists

  This series comprises muster books and pay lists of regiments. It provides a comprehensive means of establishing dates of enlistment, movements throughout the world, and of discharge or death. The first entry may show age on enlistment. An entry on t…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1816-1878

  Reference

  WO 11

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  War Office: Geographical Section General Staff: War of 1914-1918: Gallipoli Campaign,...

  Topographical, reconnaissance and operations (trench) maps and diagrams; Admiralty charts and naval operations diagrams (at 1:24 000 and 1:26 000); air photographs; sketches and panoramas of Turkey in Europe, Turkey in Asia, and the Dardanelles Strai…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1905-1929

  Reference

  WO 301

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  Records of the Ministry of Munitions and successors, including papers of David Lloyd...

  Records of the Ministry of Munitions and successors relating to the supply of munitions during the First World War.Comprises:Records of the Central Registry, etc. MUN 4Historical Records Branch, MUN 5Munitions Council daily reports, MUN 1Requirements…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1881-1943

  Reference

  MUN

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  Department

  Records of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain

  Records of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, the national mapping agency and creator of authoritative and detailed maps. For much of its history, it was largely staffed by members of the Royal Engineers. The records comprise files, reports, manua…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1755-2025

  Reference

  OS

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  War Office: General Sir George Scovell, Intelligence Branch of Quartermaster General...

  These papers consist largely of intercepted despatches, reports and maps, captured during the Peninsular War by General Sir George Scovell, then of the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General in Spain, later Wellington's chief cipher officer…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1762-1922

  Reference

  WO 37

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  Judge Advocate General's Office: Trial of Field Marshal von Manstein: Sound Recordings...

  This series consists of a set of sound recordings of the trial of Fritz Erich von Lewinski, otherwise known as Von Manstein, who was accused of committing war crimes in Poland and the USSR between 1939 and 1944, and the log book of the sound recordin…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1949

  Reference

  WO 238

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  Series

  War Office: Directorate of Army Medical Services and Territorial Force: Nursing Service...

  Correspondence files of the Directorate of Army Medical Services and Territorial Force containing service records of women who served in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service and Territorial Force Nursing Service and other associated bo…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  c1914 - c1939

  Reference

  WO 399

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  War Office: Foreign Legions Muster Books, Pay Lists and Courts Martial Register

  This series consists of muster rolls, service records and attestation papers for the British German and British Swiss Legions. In addition there are lists of officers and men from the British German Legion who settled in the Cape, and a register of c…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1854-1856

  Reference

  WO 15

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  War Office: Field Marshal Viscount Garnet Joseph Wolseley, Adjutant General of Army:...

  An accumulation of some of the private papers of Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley including accounts of the war with China, 1860, the Ashanti (1873-1874) and Zulu (1879) wars and the Sudan expedition of 1884. The series also contains a Cavalry Brigade…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1860-1889

  Reference

  WO 147

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  War Office, Directorate of Works and predecessors: Army Establishments: Plans and...

  This series contains plans and drawings of army barracks, depots, forts, batteries and other military structures.The bulk of the plans date from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with only a handful of earlier or later material.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1713-1998

  Reference

  WORK 43

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  War Office: Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill: Papers

  Official and personal correspondence of Field Marshal Sir John Dill as GOC Palestine (1936 to 1937), GOC Aldershot Command (1937 to 1939) with the BEF in France to April 1940, and as vice and then chief of the Imperial General Staff.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1936-1941

  Reference

  WO 282

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  Air Ministry and Successors: Airfield Site Plans

  This is a series of technical drawings and plans of airfield sites, covering all areas. They include building details, general site layouts, utilities, workshops, accommodation, sick quarters, stores, training theatres, bomber and fighter stations, h…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1905-1999

  Reference

  DEFE 221

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  Series

  War Office: Baron Jeffrey Amherst, Commander in Chief: Papers

  The collection consists for the most part of official correspondence, monthly and weekly returns, marching orders, applications for commissions, order books, reports and plans collected by Jeffrey, Baron Amherst. This series originally comprised 260 …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1712-1786

  Reference

  WO 34

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  Series

  War Office: Papers of Sir Redvers H Buller, General Commanding, Natal Army, South...

  The papers in this series comprise official and semi-official correspondence, copies and lists of despatches and telegrams sent and received by Sir Redvers H Buller, and copies of reports made by him while serving as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Zulu …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1872-1901

  Reference

  WO 132

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  Series

  War Office: Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force and 21 Army Group: Microfilms

  This series contains microfilm copies of documents originating with the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force and 21 Army Group and relates to a variety of headquarters responsibilities.Records within this series are available to download a…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1943-1945

  Reference

  WO 229

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  War Office: Women's (later Queen Mary's) Army Auxiliary Corps: Service Records, First...

  Contains records of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) later renamed Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (QMAAC) comprising service records for women who served in the First World War and immediate post war period. Digital copies of Women?s Army …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1917-1920

  Reference

  WO 398

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  War Office: Soldiers' Documents from Pension Claims, First World War (Microfilm Copies...

  This series consists mainly of microfilm copies of service records of non-commissioned officers and other ranks who were discharged from the Army and claimed disability pensions for war service between 1914 and 1920, and did not re-enlist prior to th…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1900-1994

  Reference

  WO 364

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  Series

  War Office: Allied Military Committee of Versailles and its commissions: Papers

  This series contains material relating to the organization and activities of the various military commissions of the Committee, following the Versailles Peace Conference at the conclusion of the First World War.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1919-1927

  Reference

  WO 155

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  Series

  Ordnance Office, Military Branch, and War Office: Royal Artillery Records of Service...

  These records of non-commissioned officers and men include description books; records of service, including original attestation papers; registers of marriages and baptisms; registers of deceased soldiers; some records of transfer of men to the Army …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1755-1917

  Reference

  WO 69

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  Series

  War Office: International Red Cross and Protecting Powers (Geneva): Reports concerning...

  This series comprises a collection of reports by the International Red Cross and Protecting Powers (Geneva) and deals with conditions and events in various Prisoner of War Camps in Europe and the Far East.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1941-1947

  Reference

  WO 224