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  War Office: The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Other Ranks: Service...

  This series consists of the 56,261 service records of soldiers (but not officers) who served in the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) during the Second World War and immediately after, and who were discharged from the armed fo…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  [1942-1963]

  Reference

  WO 420

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  Series

  Ministry of Munitions: Files transferred to the War Office

  The documents relate principally to contracts, explosives, inventions and munitions inspection. Most of them were created in the Ministry but some had originated in the War Office, being transferred to the Ministry in 1915 or later with the functions…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1881-1935

  Reference

  MUN 7

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  War Office: Royal Army Service Corps, Army Catering Corps, and Royal Engineers Other...

  This series consists the service records of non-commissioned officers and other ranks (but not officers) who served in the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC), Army Catering Corps (ACC), or Royal Engineers of the British Army during the Second World War …

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  Date

  [1939-1963]

  Reference

  WO 438

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  War Office: German Record cards of British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War and...

  This series comprises some pre-printed cards, containing personal details of some 200,000 individuals held by German Authorities during the Second World War, most relate to prisoners of war though there are several hundred relating to civilians. The …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1939-1945

  Reference

  WO 416

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  General Register Office: 1911 Census Schedules

  Enumerators' schedules of returns made by heads of households for the 1911 census, which include the names, age, sex, occupation and parish and county of birth of individual members of the population of England, Wales, the Isle of Man and the Channel…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1911

  Reference

  RG 14

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

  Maps produced for the Italian theatre of operations from British, Italian and Austro-Hungarian series. They include maps used by the Official Historians. The large-scale special Operations Maps (WO 369/753-767) do not have regular sheet-lines or form…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1890-1990

  Reference

  WO 369

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  War Office: Selected Smaller Corps Other Ranks: Service Records

  This series consists of 94,242 service records of soldiers (but not officers) who served in 12 different smaller units/corps of the British Army during the Second World War and immediately after, and who were discharged from the armed forces as over …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  [1939-1963]

  Reference

  WO 421

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  Ministry of Munitions, Munitions Council: Historical Records Branch

  Documents in this series, mostly of the period 1915 to 1922, are those specially appropriated by, or created in, the Ministry's Historical Records Branch for the purpose of preparing the official History of the Ministry of Munitions. It includes some…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1901-1943

  Reference

  MUN 5

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  Records of the Paymaster General's Office and predecessors

  These records were created or inherited by the Paymaster General's Office, which was established in 1835. Among its predecessors was the Paymaster General of the Forces, other of whose records are in WO 79 and WO 109.The records chiefly concern expen…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1720-2002

  Reference

  PMG

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  Ordnance Survey: Miscellanea

  This series includes a variety of material, including some early correspondence; rules and regulations; progress reports; scientific and technical papers; monographs about the history of the Ordnance Survey; catalogues; maps and plans; and published …

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1755-1993

  Reference

  OS 3

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  War Office: Committee on Awards to Inventors: Minutes and Papers

  The series contains proceedings of committee meetings, which include background papers, plans, diagrams etc. as well as a record of the awards made.

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1920-1940

  Reference

  WO 313

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  War Office: Royal Engineer Board, later Royal Engineer and Signals Board: Extracts...

  The series consists of printed handbooks of extracts relating to equipment and research from the proceedings of the A (Field Engineers), B (Air Defence) and C (Signals) Committees of the Royal Engineer Board (1919 to 1936) and Royal Engineer and Sign…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1919-1938

  Reference

  WO 187

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  Committee of Imperial Defence: Home Ports Defence Committee, later Home Defence Committee:...

  This series consists of the minutes of the Home Ports Defence Committee (HPDC), later the Home Defence Committee (HDC) of the Committee of Imperial Defence.Topics covered include fixed defences at defended ports (including defence of the Channel Isla…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1909-1939

  Reference

  CAB 12

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  Committee of Imperial Defence: Home Ports Defence Committee later Home Defence Committee:...

  This series consists of the memoranda and papers of the Home Ports Defence Committee (HPDC), later the Home Defence Committee (HDC) of the Committee of Imperial Defence, and of its sub-committees.Subjects covered include fixed defences at defended po…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1909-1939

  Reference

  CAB 13

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  Series

  Colonial Office: Military Original Correspondence

  This series consists of files from the series produced by a unified system of military registration introduced in the Colonial Office in 1927 and which continued until 1951.From 1927 to 1938, the files relate principally to two colonial military forc…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1926-1951

  Reference

  CO 820

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  War Office: Gallantry Medal and Award Rolls, Military Medal

  This series contains a register for the award of the Military Medal during the Second World War. It records name, rank, service number and unit of each recipient with the date the award was announced in the London Gazette. The register was compiled b…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1930-1993

  Reference

  WO 326

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  Series

  Education Department and successors: Office of Special Inquiries and Reports and...

  Files of the Office of Special Inquiries and Reports and of its successors, the Department of Intelligence and Public Relations (1935-1945), the Information and External Relations Branch (1945-1949) which subsequently subdivided into the Information …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1871-1980

  Reference

  ED 121

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  Colonial Defence Committee, and Committee of Imperial Defence, Colonial Defence Committee...

  This series consists of papers, memoranda and instructions drawn up by the first Colonial Defence Committee of 1878-1879, by the second Colonial Defence Committee of 1885 to 1904, by the Committee of Imperial Defence (CID)'s Colonial Defence Committe…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1863-1939

  Reference

  CAB 11

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  Series

  Colonial Defence Committee, and Committee of Imperial Defence, Colonial Defence Committee...

  This series consists of the records of four different bodies: minutes, reports and correspondence of the first Colonial Defence Committee, minutes and papers of the the Royal Commission appointed to enquire into the Defence of British Possessions and…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1877-1939

  Reference

  CAB 7

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  Admiralty: Operational Intelligence Centre: Intelligence from Intercepted German,...

  File copies of teleprinter messages. The various series of messages are of two distinct types: intercepted signals, decrypted, translated, and sent from the German Naval Section of the Admiralty's Naval Intelligence Division at Bletchley Park to the …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1941-1945

  Reference

  DEFE 3