Catalogue description Ordnance Office and War Office: Warrants of Royal Approval

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Reference: WO 370
Title: Ordnance Office and War Office: Warrants of Royal Approval
Description:

This series comprises warrants of royal approval, mostly in bound volumes, originating in the Ordnance Office until about 1860, and the War Office, but brought together in the Ministry of Defence library. They relate to pay and promotions, patterns (of dress and equipment), arms, and augmentations (i.e. increases in regimental etc. numbers).

Date: 1837-1960
Arrangement:

Entries in earlier volumes are numbered, but this practice appears to have been gradually dropped.

Related material:

For the warrants for which this series is a continuation see WO 55

For related submissions see WO 103

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ordnance Office, 1683-1855

War Department, 1855-1857

War Office, 1857-1964

Physical description: 47 files, papers and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure

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