Catalogue description War Office: Fortifications Branch and successors: Unregistered Records

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Details of WO 396
Reference: WO 396
Title: War Office: Fortifications Branch and successors: Unregistered Records
Description:

This series contains reports, memoranda, minutes of meetings, papers and copies of correspondence, of the Defence Committee (later the Naval and Military Defence Committee), 1870-1889 and the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers Works Committee, 1884-1896, which reported to the Naval and Military Defence Committee. Records relate to the construction, maintenance and armament etc of naval/coastal defences, including forts, coastal and shore artillery batteries etc.

Date: 1830-1902
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Commander-in-Chief, Military Department, Works Division, 1887-1895

War Office, Works Department, 1895-1904

War Office, Works Division, 1870-1887

Physical description: 110 volume(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1995 Ministry of Defence

Accruals: Series is accruing

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