War Office

1910-1926: War Office: First World War Representative Medical Records of Servicemen and Servicewomen

1881-1935: Ministry of Munitions: Files transferred to the War Office

1854-1979: Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Selected War Pensions Award Files for Service Prior to 1914

1783-1922: Major General Sir William Eyre and predecessor: Papers

1940-1945: War Office: Home Guard records, Second World War

1855-1920: Treasury: Books of Out-letters to the War Department and War Office

1885-1926: Treasury Solicitor: War Office Registers

1891-1979: Treasury Solicitor: Registered Files, War Office (WO Series)

1732-1868: War Office and predecessors: Secretary-at-War, Secretary of State for War, and Commander-in-Chief, In-letters and Miscellaneous Papers

1759-1858: War Office and predecessors: Indexes to Out-letters

1684-1861: War Office: Secretary-at-War, Out-letters

1793-1859: War Department and successors: Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Out-letters

1715-1862: War Office and predecessors: Various Departmental Out-letters

1708-1878: Commissary General of Musters Office and successors: Artillery Muster Books and Pay Lists

1816-1878: War Office and predecessors: Engineers Muster Books and Pay Lists

1732-1878: Commissary General of Musters Office and successors: General Muster Books and Pay Lists

1778-1878: War Office and predecessors: Militia and Volunteers Muster Books and Pay Lists

1854-1856: War Office: Scutari Depot Muster Books and Pay Lists

1854-1856: War Office: Foreign Legions Muster Books, Pay Lists and Courts Martial Register

1877-1898: War Office: Muster Books and Pay Lists

1661-1975: War Office: Papers concerning Establishments

1660-1938: War Office and predecessors: Secretary-at-War, Secretary of State for War, and Related Bodies, Registers

1746-1926: War Office: Records of Military Headquarters

1879: War Office: Prince Imperial Verification Deed

1684-1951: War Office, predecessors and associated departments: Miscellaneous Papers

1845-1999: War Office and successors: Registered Files (General Series)

1853-1969: War Office: Reports, Memoranda and Papers (O and A Series)

1773-1799: War Office: Military Headquarters, North America: Entry Books, American Revolution

1755-1908: War Office: Officers' Birth Certificates, Wills and Personal Papers

1682-1873: Ordnance Office and War Office: Correspondence

1594-1871: Ordnance Office and War Office: Entry Books and Registers

1568-1923: Ordnance Office and War Office: Miscellaneous Entry Books and Papers

1754-1879: War Office: Printed Annual Army Lists

1768-1913: War Office: Depot Description Books

1755-1917: Ordnance Office, Military Branch, and War Office: Royal Artillery Records of Service and Papers

1758-1908: War Office: Army Purchase Commission: Records

1764-1961: War Office: Records of Officers' Services

1856-1977: War Office: Correspondence and Papers Concerning the Victoria Cross

1793-1984: War Office: Campaign Medal and Award Rolls (General Series)

1845-1996: War Office: Meritorious Service Awards, Registers

1831-1979: War Office: Long Service and Good Conduct Awards, Registers

1803-1965: War Office and Associated Departments: Submissions for Royal Approval

1837-1962: War Office: Directorate of Military Operations and Military Intelligence, and predecessors: Correspondence and Papers

1763-1946: Office of the Commander in Chief and War Office: Quartermaster General's Department: Correspondence and Papers

1901-1967: War Office: Army Ordnance Corps: Orders and Papers

1876-1960: War Office: Army Estimates

1711-1992: Ministry of Defence and predecessors: Army Circulars, Memoranda, Orders and Regulations

1830-1963: War Office: Personal Files

1826-1901: War Office: Correspondence Subject Indexes

1912-1946: War Office: Registered Papers (Special Series)

1801-1980: Royal Military Asylum for Children of Soldiers of the Regular Army, later Duke of York's Royal Military School, and Royal Hibernian Military School: Records

1883-1994: War Office: Registers of Recipients of the Royal Red Cross

1855-1909: War Office: Distinguished Conduct Medal, Submissions to Sovereign

1900-1905: War Office and Colonial Office: Civilian Claims to Military Compensation Boards, South African War

1914-1944: War Office: Miscellaneous Unregistered Papers, First World War

1938-1947: War Office: Directorates (Various): War Diaries, Second World War

1918-1964: War Office: Orders of Battle and Organisation Tables

1920-1963: Contracts Co-ordinating Committee and Sub-committees: Minutes, Papers and Reports

1941-1947: War Office: International Red Cross and Protecting Powers (Geneva): Reports concerning Prisoner of War Camps in Europe and the Far East

1943-1945: War Office: Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force and 21 Army Group: Microfilms

1900-1947: War Office: Committee Lists and Recommendations' Abstracts

1906-1913: War Office: Directors' Meetings, Minutes

1942-1971: War Office: Directorate of Supplies and Transport: Papers

1874-1990: War Office and Ministry of Defence: Confidential Print

1925-1978: Ministry of Supply and successors: Branch Registry Files

1904-1949: War Office: Confidential Printed Papers (B Papers)

1957-1977: War Office: Army Air Corps: War Diaries and Operations Record Books

1705-2015: War Office and Ministry of Defence: Army Unit Historical Records and Reports

1914-1918: War Office: War of 1914-1918: Western Front: Photographs

1915-1919: War Office: War of 1914-1918: Gallipoli Campaign: Photographs

1916-1918: War Office: War of 1914-1918: Palestine Campaign: Photographs

1916-1918: War Office: War of 1914-1918: Italian Campaign: Photographs

1930-1993: War Office: Gallantry Medal and Award Rolls, Military Medal

1914-1974: War Office: Selected Civilian Personal Files

1957-1971: War Office: Headquarters British Forces Gulf Area: Files

1939-1947: War Office: Army Casualty Lists, 1939-45 War

1947-1985: War Office and Ministry of Defence: Royal Armoured Corps: Correspondence and Reports

1950-1990: War Office and Ministry of Defence: Headquarters British Army of the Rhine: Technical Reports

1900-1994: War Office: Soldiers' Documents from Pension Claims, First World War (Microfilm Copies and Medical Cards)

1837-1960: Ordnance Office and War Office: Warrants of Royal Approval

1814-1974: War Office and Ministry of Defence: Gibraltar Garrison: Miscellaneous Minutes and Papers

1733-1964: Ordnance Office and War Office: Personnel and Office Management Records

1956-1973: War Office and Ministry of Defence: Sovereign Base Areas Administration, Cyprus: Registered Files (SBA Series)

1911-1982: War Office and Ministry of Defence: Military Secretary's Department: Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross Registers

1798-1959: War Office: Specimens of Series of Documents Destroyed

1699-1998: Office of Works and successors: Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings: Registered Files

1932-2003: Ministry of Defence (Army): Registered Files and Branch Folders

1675-1997: War Office and successors: Defence Lands: Building and Property Files

1600-2003: War Office and Ministry of Defence: Lands Branch and Directorate of Lands: Property Record: Estate Management Plans

1939 -1945: War Office: Indian Army: Casualties

1939-1945: War Office: Indian Army: General Service Medal

1939 –1945: War Office: Indian Army Medal Cards

1939-1945: War Office: Indian Army: Honours and Decorations, British Officers

1939-1945: War Office: Indian Army; Honours and Decorations, Indian Nationals

1947: War Office: Indian Army: Independence Medal and Pakistan Medal

1939-1945: Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS): Ships' Cards

1857-1964: Defensively Equiped Merchant Ships (DEMS): Royal Artillery Maritime Regiments Medal Cards

[1942-1963]: War Office: The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Other Ranks: Service Records

[1939-1963]: War Office: Selected Smaller Corps Other Ranks: Service Records

1901-1995: War Office and Ministry of Defence: Lands Branch and Directorate of Lands: Property Record: Estate Management Plans for Dorset, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Somerset

[1939-1945]: War Office: French Tchad [Chad] Other Ranks: Service Records

[1759-1999]: War Office: Grenadier Guards: Registers, Muster Rolls, Description Books and Indexes

[1939-1963]: War Office: Infantry Over Age Other Ranks: Service Records, Second World War

[1939-1963]: War Office: Other Ranks and Nurses: Service Records, Second World War

1887-1995: Air Ministry and Ministry of Defence: Registered Files

1901-1944: Air Ministry: Air Member for Personnel and predecessors: Airmen's Records

1925-1942: War Office: Air Defence Experimental Establishment: Reports

1912-1975: Ministry of Supply and predecessor and successors: Contracts, Registered Files (Series 6)

1930-1990: Ministry of Supply and predecessor and successors: Research, Registered Files (Series 7), Reports and Specifications

1917-1990: Property Services Agency: Directorate of Defence Services I (Army): Graves and Cemeteries Files

1886-1953: Photographs Extracted from WO series

1720-1985: Records of the Armed Forces from commands, headquarters, regiments and corps

1702-2007: Armed Forces Service Records

1568-1983: Records of the Ordnance Office and its successors at the War Office

1854-1993: Ministry of Defence prior to 1964: Registered Files (General Series)

1944-1996: Ministry of Defence - Directorate of Scientific Intelligence: Joint Intelligence Bureau; Division of Scientific Intelligence and Division of Atomic Energy Intelligence; Defence Intelligence Staff: Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence: Reports, Notes and Memoranda

1736-1974: Records of Naval Ordnance Departments and Establishments