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Catalogue description Ordnance Office and War Office: Correspondence
| Reference: | WO 44 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Ordnance Office and War Office: Correspondence |
| Description: |
Original correspondence of the Ordnance Office, which, except for a small section of miscellaneous letters, is almost entirely of nineteenth century date. The series also contains a small amount of War Office correspondence after the dissolution of the Ordnance Office in 1855 and the proceedings of the Royal Military Canal Commissioners. |
| Date: | 1682-1873 |
| Arrangement: | |
| Related material: |
For the related registers to the correspondence of the Board of Ordnance and Master General of the Ordnance see WO 45 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Ordnance Office, 1683-1855 War Department, 1855-1857 War Office, 1857-1964 |
| Physical description: | 732 volume(s) |
| Selection and destruction information: | The letters in this series have been weeded. |
| Unpublished finding aids: |
There are, in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew, indexes to services of officers; services of non-commissioned officers and men; inventors who submitted inventions to the Ordnance Office down to the year 1855; and to in-letters, by subject. |
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