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  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ordnance Office: Royal Engineers; Sheerness: Letter Book

    The series contains a letter book from the commanding officer of the Royal Engineers at Sheerness.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1803-1805
    Reference
    WO 292
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office: Intelligence Branch: Narrative of British Operations in China (1840-1842)...

    This series consists of the manuscript draft of a narrative entitled British Operations in China 1840-1842 compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department by Major J S Rothwell, R.A.. Also included are a few notes and l…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1884-1891
    Reference
    WO 273
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Property Services Agency: Directorate of Defence Services I (Army): Graves and Cemeteries...

    Records of the Directorate of Defence Services I of the Property Service Agency and predecessors, including the Admiralty and War Office, relating to the maintenance of UK graves and cemeteries at home and overseas.The series includes some maps, plan…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1917-1990
    Reference
    CM 4
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Commissary General of Musters Office and successors: Artillery Muster Books and Pay...

    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
    1708-1878
    Reference
    WO 10
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Office of Works and successors: Royal Ordnance Factories: Correspondence and Papers

    This series contains correspondence and papers relating to contracts for the construction of emergency ordnance filling factories and ancillary buildings before, during and after the Second World War.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1936-1951
    Reference
    WORK 26
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office: Directorate of Labour: Papers

    The series consists mainly of reports to the directorate concerning the activities of the Pioneer Corps in various parts of the world.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1939-1945
    Reference
    WO 253
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office: Office of the Engineer-in-Chief: Papers

    The series contains reports, pamphlets and technical notes on training, planning and operations at home and abroad, carried out by Royal Engineers.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1939-1985
    Reference
    WO 227
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office and successors: Defence Lands: Building and Property Files

    This series comprises books, registers, maps and plans covering land and building aspects including deeds and property leases. These records are a mixture of different documents covering land use implications and have been created by various individu…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1675-1997
    Reference
    WO 414
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office: Muster Books and Pay Lists

    This series contains muster books and pay lists for the period of 1878 to 1898.The majority of the records for the years 1878 to 1888 contain detailed pay lists with names. Those described as 'General States' contain a general statement of accounts f…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1877-1898
    Reference
    WO 16
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Andrew Snape Douglas: Papers

    A collection of the correspondence of Andrew Snape Douglas as British chargé d'affairesat Palermo, 1811 and 1813-1814, and at Naples, 1816-1818 and 1822.The despatches are addressed to the foreign secretaries of the day, Marquess Wellesley (1809-1812…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1811-1822
    Reference
    PRO 30/7
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Admiralty: Royal Marines Pay Office: Records

    These records of the Marine Pay Office and Accountant General's Department consist of:In-letters, 1690 to 1810. Out-Letters, 1778 to 1819. Accounts, 1695 to 1831. General and recruiting ledgers, general, divisonal and regimental accounts, half pay ca…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1688-1862
    Reference
    ADM 96
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office: India Defence Expenditure Tribunal: Circulated Papers and Notes for Counsel

    The series consists of the War Office's set of the circulated papers of the Tribunal and also of notes for the War Office counsel not submitted to the Tribunal.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1931-1933
    Reference
    WO 207
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office: Geographical Section General Staff and Historical Section: War of 1914-1918:...

    Topographical, geological, reconnaissance and operations (trench) maps of Persia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Arabia, Palestine, Sinai, Egypt, Sudan and Libya: the series includes coverage of an area from Syria to Cyrenaica, with detailed mapping of the W…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1880-1984
    Reference
    WO 303
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office: Indian Army: Independence Medal and Pakistan Medal

    This series contains records relating to medals awarded to individuals serving in the pre-partition Indian Army

    Held by
    Date
    1947
    Reference
    WO 434
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office: British Army Medal Index Cards, Second World War

    This series consists of medal index cards (Form C.S.20) denoting the medal entitlement of officers, non-commissioned officers and other ranks who served in selected regiments of the British Army during the Second World War. C.S.20 medal cards take t…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1948-1999
    Reference
    WO 460
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office: Indian Army: Honours and Decorations, British Officers

    This series contains records relating to honours and decorations awarded to British officers serving in the Indian Army during and after the Second World War. The series extends up to the partition of India in 1947

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1939-1945
    Reference
    WO 432
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office: General Sir Robert Brownrigg, Military Secretary to Commander in Chief,...

    This series consists mainly of out-letter books of General Sir Robert Brownrigg, Military Secretary to the Commander in Chief, 1795 to 1803, Quartermaster General, 1803 to 1811, and Governor of Ceylon, 1811 to 1820.The series includes material which …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1792-1820
    Reference
    WO 133
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office: Directorate of Military Operations and Intelligence, and Directorate...

    The series consists of records of the Directorate of Military Intelligence as established in 1939, together with some inherited from the former Directorate of Military Operations and Intelligence.Additional sections were formed during the course of t…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1917-1990
    Reference
    WO 208
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office: Lord Frederick Roberts, Commander in Chief (South Africa and England)...

    These papers of Lord Roberts include despatches, telegrams and reports exchanged between Roberts, field commanders and officials in South Africa; telegrams to and from the Secretary of State for War, and to the High Commissioner. There is also a coll…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1835-1913
    Reference
    WO 105
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Selected War Pensions...

    This series contains personal case files on disablement pensions arising from service in the Army or Navy before the First World War and case files concerning widows of such servicemen.The files contain medical records (in some cases including X-rays…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1854-1979
    Reference
    PIN 71

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