Catalogue description Judge Advocate General's Office: District Courts Martial Registers, India

This series comprises registers of district courts martial in India from the Judge Advocate General's Office. These district courts martial tried only non-commissioned officers and other ranks.

The registers of charges give, in tabulated form, the name, rank and regiment of each prisoner, place of trial, nature of the charge and sentence. The registers cover the period 1878 to the end of the Second World War, with some twentieth century gaps.

Judge Advocate Generals Office, 1660-1905

War Office, Judge Advocate Generals Office, 1905-1923

War Office, Office of the Judge Advocate General, 1923-1935

War Office, Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Forces, 1935-1948