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War Department

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Alternative name(s):
  • War Office (Also known as)
Date: 1854-1878
Functions, occupations and activities: Government (central) > War Office
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C28935 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O102554 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1854-1855: official letter book rel to the formation of a civil engineering corps in the Crimea and the building and the problems of the Balaclava to Sevastopol railway
Archives: Wigan & Leigh
EHC16/M784
NRA 30192 Hall
2
c1854-1878: records incl volumes (2) of papers rel to foundation of War Department
National Army Museum Templer Study Centre
2010-01-48
See Annual Return 2010
3
1861: reports and maps rel to Coalhouse Fort, Tilbury, Harwich and Warley
Essex Record Office
A11131
See Annual Return 2002
4
1861-1864: Howlett reports on lands in Suffolk
Suffolk Archives - Ipswich
IV 400
See Annual Return 2002
5
1863: Howlett reports on lands in Suffolk
Suffolk Archives - Lowestoft Branch
Acc 1478
See Annual Return 2002
6
1863: Howlett report on lands at Great Yarmouth
Norfolk Record Office
ACC 2002/152
See Annual Return 2002
Related record creators
  Record creator Description of relationship Dates Category of relationship
1
Ministry of Defence
War Department became War Office from c1857, though original name was still in use. War Office became Ministry of Defence in 1964.
Associative