Catalogue description Judge Advocate General's Office: District Courts Martial Registers, Home and Abroad

This series comprises registers of district court martial at home and abroad from the Judge Advocate General's Office, from the institution of district courts martial in 1829. 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.

Judge Advocate Generals Office, 1660-1905

Lord Chancellor's Department, Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Forces, 1972-

Lord Chancellor's Office, Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Forces, 1948-1972

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