British Army

This page summarises records created by this Organisation

The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Date:	1698-2017
Functions, occupations and activities:	Army > Higher Formations and Specialist Corps
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C52152 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O38693 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1698-1724: army lists, estimates, statistics	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 22616
2	1699-1710: Army lists	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 9755-62
3	1702-13: documents rel to army and garrisons	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 5940
4	1743: general order book, incl for Dettingen	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD224/626	NRA 34806 Buccleuch
5	1809-18: records of the adjutant-general, military secretary and paymaster in the Peninsula, France, Low Countries and Germany	University of Southampton Library	MS 61	NRA 20085
6	1815-16: order book, Belgium	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development		NRA 1252
7	1815-19: general orders	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 9842-43
8	1916-1918: operational and intelligence records of the 1st and 2nd armies	Wichita State University Library		See NUC MS 92-3142
9	1967-2013: recruitment registers, returns and scrapbooks for Lincolnshire	Lincolnshire Archives	ARMRE	See Annual Return 2013
10	1937-2009: modern pentathlon records	Bath University Archives	MODERN PENTATHLON	See Annual Return 2015
11	1947: documents rel to a Polish regiment sent to Brancepeth Camp in 1947	The Story Durham (formerly Durham County Record Office)	D/X 2146	See Annual Return 2018
12	2011-2017: photographs of the British Army rel to various activities compiled by Cpl Tom Seaton-Norton	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	NAM 2018-01-73 to 2018-01-80	See Annual Return 2018
13	2014-2017: photographs compiled by Cpl Tom Seaton-Norton of British Army music and bands	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	NAM 2018-05-25	See Annual Return 2018
14	1953-1980: series of lists, bound volumes and loose paper files, of army units and the numbers/equipment required for the function of the unit	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	NAM. 2022-10-8-2	See Annual Return 2022
15	1945-1989: United Kingdom Land Forces: black and white negatives covering activities, 1970-1989	Imperial War Museum (IWM) Photograph Archive	2023-02-04	See Annual Return 2023
16	1945-1989: British Forces in Cyprus: black and white negatives and associated contact prints, 1954-1975	Imperial War Museum (IWM) Photograph Archive	2023-02-05	See Annual Return 2023