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  Royal Hospital Chelsea: Prize Records

  This series contains a list of entitlements to shares in war prize won in military actions between 1779 and 1858. Most of the records are registers of shares unclaimed, with entries of the dates on which any eventual claims were settled, and notes of…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1720-1899

  Reference

  WO 164

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  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…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1854-1979

  Reference

  PIN 71

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  General Register Office: 1911 Census Enumerator's Summary Books

  This series contains 1911 Census Enumerator's Summary Books (ESBs) which contain instructions for each enumerator, particulars of each enumeration district including boundaries of districts and in urban areas the names of streets and partial streets.…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1911

  Reference

  RG 78

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  Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and...

  Records of the General Register Office (GRO), Office of National Statistics (ONS), Government Social Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys relating to the registration of births, marriages and deaths and the collection of i…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1567-2022

  Reference

  RG

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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…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  [1942-1963]

  Reference

  WO 420

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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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  [1939-1963]

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  WO 438

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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…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1890-1990

  Reference

  WO 369

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  Admiralty, Inter-service Topographical Department, and Ministry of Defence, Joint...

  This series comprises reports, surveys, maps, plans, and photographs of places and areas in theatres of war in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Atlantic, and the Pacific. The reports were compiled for use in strategic and tactical planning, and comprise inf…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1913-1968

  Reference

  WO 252

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  Ordnance Survey: Directorate of Field Survey: National Grid Object Name Books

  This series consists of Object Name Book (ONB) folders containing information relating to the names of objects depicted on Ordnance Survey mapping of England and Wales, together with the authority for their spelling. Their primary purpose is to list …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1943-1983

  Reference

  OS 67

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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 …

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  [1939-1963]

  Reference

  WO 421

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  Ministry of Defence: Directorate of Military Survey and successor: Operation Banner:...

  This series contains topographic and thematic series and non-series paper maps at various scales produced to support the activities of the British Armed Forces deployed to Northern Ireland as part of Operation Banner, military assistance to the civil…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1969-2007

  Reference

  DEFE 259

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  Nature Conservancy and Nature Conservancy Council: Parliamentary Matters, Registered...

  Files of the Nature Conservancy and Nature Conservancy Council containing correspondence and papers concerning legislation on nature conservation (eg Nature Conservancy Bill 1973, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981). The responsibilities of the direct…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1969-2003

  Reference

  FT 9

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  Registry of Shipping and Seamen: War of 1939-1945; Log Books and Crew Agreements

  This series comprises agreements and crew lists (with log books where they survive), for allied and commandeered ships, primarily covering the period of the Second World War and kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. The series also co…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1936-1950

  Reference

  BT 380

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  Prime Minister's Office: Operational Correspondence and Papers

  This series is made up of papers originally termed 'Operational'. They relate to the conduct of the Second World War and reflect the activities of the Prime Minister as Minister of Defence, such as the setting up of the Combined Operations Organisati…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1937-1946

  Reference

  PREM 3

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  War Cabinet and Cabinet: Radio Board and successors: Minutes and Papers

  This series contains Lord Justice du Parcq's inquiry into inter-service radio co-operation; minutes and papers of the Radio Board (in its various guises) and various sub-committees and panels appointed by the Board; correspondence files of the Secret…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1941-1957

  Reference

  CAB 125

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  Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Companies Court: Companies (Winding-up)...

  These arise from actions heard in the Companies Court of the High Court of Justice under the Companies (Winding Up) Act 1890 and subsequent legislation. The files include copies of summonses, affidavits of various kinds, court orders, petitions, judg…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1883-2003

  Reference

  J 13

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  Records of Special Operations Executive

  The records of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), which functioned during the Second World War to promote sabotage and subversion and assist resistance groups in enemy occupied territory. Files relating to operations in the Far East are in HS 1,…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1936-1992

  Reference

  HS

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  Government Code and Cypher School: Reports on Second World War German Army and Air...

  This series contains weekly reports compiled by the Government Code and Cypher School of details of intercepted German army and air force wireless communications traffic during the Second World War. The reports give details of traffic volumes and cal…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1941-1945

  Reference

  HW 45

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  War Cabinet and Cabinet Office: Joint American Secretariat: Correspondence and Papers

  The records in this series comprise the Secretary's files of the Joint American Secretariat, and consist mainly of correspondence with the British supply organisations in America, and papers relating to the application of the Lend-Lease programme.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1942-1947

  Reference

  CAB 110

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  Government Code and Cypher School: Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force...

  This series consists of records relating to signals intelligence work carried out by the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, covering subjects such as the organisation of air signals intelligence, minutes of meetings, policy on the organ…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1943-1945

  Reference

  HW 60