Catalogue description Ordnance Office, Military Branch, and War Office: Royal Artillery Records of Service and Papers

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Details of WO 69
Reference: WO 69
Title: Ordnance Office, Military Branch, and War Office: Royal Artillery Records of Service and Papers
Description:

These records of non-commissioned officers and men include description books; records of service, including original attestation papers; registers of marriages and baptisms; registers of deceased soldiers; some records of transfer of men to the Army Reserve, etc; pension registers; description book of the Royal Irish Artillery, 1756 to 1774; and miscellaneous correspondence.

Note: Catalogue entries for this series have been enhanced as part of a project supported by the Friends of The National Archives, 2008-2013.
Date: 1755-1917
Separated material:

Only 314 volumes are now held in WO 69. The remaining items, chiefly records of services of non-effectives, WO 69 (20-61 and 178-550), were transferred to Chelsea Hospital in 1923 and are believed to have been destroyed during the Second World War.

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

Ordnance Office, Military Branch, 1683-1855

War Department, 1855-1857

War Office, 1857-1964

Physical description: 905 volume(s)

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