Catalogue description War Office: Grenadier Guards: Registers, Muster Rolls, Description Books and Indexes

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Details of WO 437
Reference: WO 437
Title: War Office: Grenadier Guards: Registers, Muster Rolls, Description Books and Indexes
Description:

This series includes muster books and pay lists, muster rolls, discharge registers, registers of deserters and those called to National Service, attestation forms, enlistment registers, description books and indexes.

Date: [1759-1999]
Related material:

See also Armed Forces Service Records in Division within WO

For muster rolls and pay lists for other units see WO 12

For muster rolls and pay lists for other units see WO 16
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

War Office, 1857-1964
Physical description: 201 volume(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2020 Ministry of Defence
Accruals: No further accruals are anticipated.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Grenadier Guards can trace its lineage back to the middle of the 17th century. This series largely relates to the 19th and 20th centuries, including a range of administrative material produced by the regiment and the War Office.

Records within this series provide a means of establishing individual dates of enlistment, movements throughout the world, and of discharge or death. From about 1868, at the end of each muster, may be found a Marriage Roll, which enumerates wives and children for whom married quarters were provided.

A variety of Registers are also found within this series, recording the discharge details of individuals, as well as a record of deserters from the regiment at various periods of time.

A number of attestation forms are also included, filled in at the point of enlistment which provide detailed information about the individuals concerned.

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