Ministry of Defence

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:	1895-2018
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government (central) > Ministry of Defence
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C214909

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1895-1955: papers and plans rel to Shoeburyness Military Tramway order, papers rel to legal dispute over fishing rights at Maplin Sands, report rel to rental value of farms on Foulness Island and land tax demands and papers rel to transfer of land at Shoeburyness and Foulness to Ministry of Supply	Essex Record Office	S3327	See Annual Return 2011
2	c1946-1989: records rel to amalgamation of chaplaincy services, wearing of aiguilettes, tropical dress and the working party on Army Dress	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	2009-08-49	See Annual Return 2009
3	1962-1976: records rel to National Army Museum; Women's Royal Army Corps Museum and WRAC Officer's mess dress	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	2009-08-62	See Annual Return 2009
4	1918-1920: officers' confidential reports	Admiralty Library
5	1918-1969: movement record cards, officers' and ratings'	Admiralty Library
6	1922-1923: operations of the Waziristan Force	Intelligence Corps Museum
7	1935-1986: aircraft design technical publications	British Library, Modern English and Reader Services, Humanities and Social Sciences	B.S.62/21
8	1939-1943: home security intelligence summaries	Bristol Archives	44895
9	1939-2009: technical library and records of corps operations and exercises	Tank Museum
10	1941-1950: correspondence, reports and photographs of work undertaken to study tank armour developments	Tank Museum
11	1946-1947: correspondence relating to World War II casualties	Intelligence Corps Museum
12	1952-1961: ship hydro-dynamics & propeller specification - Britannia	Royal Yacht Britannia Trust
13	1953-1998: West Freugh MOD trials site, photographs	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
14	1958-2007: Devon and Dorset regimental headquarter files	Dorset Military Museum
15	c1960-1969: Defence Clothing and Textiles Agency: records	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	2013-05-7	See Annual Return 2013
16	case papers and reports	Admiralty Library
17	photographic negatives of aircraft at Boscombe Down	Royal Air Force Museum, Archive, Library and Research Department
18	1900-1999: Quality Assurance Directorate and Inspectorate of Stores and Clothing ledgers	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	2014-02-63	See Annual Return 2014
19	1970: map of Colchester training areas	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	NAM.2016-01-20	See Annual Return 2016
20	2013: hard drive of digital records: The Historical Army List 1754-2005 Part I	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	NAM.2016-12-6	See Annual Return 2016
21	2012-2014: the e-army list 2006-2013, CD Roms	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	NAM.2016-12-8 to 13	See Annual Return 2016
22	1978: trials film focusing on the Martin Baker Mk7 rocket assisted ejection seat	Imperial War Museum (IWM) Department of Documents	AMY 921	See Annual Return 2017
23	1978: trials film focusing on the high sink rates of ejection seats	Imperial War Museum (IWM) Department of Documents	AMY 922	See Annual Return 2017
24	1988: video featuring celebrations for the tercentenary of the Royal Irish Rangers and Exercise Red Flag, a joint exercise conducted by the British and American armed forces at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada	Imperial War Museum (IWM) Department of Documents	BFK 467	See Annual Return 2017
25	1995: video produced by Royal Armoured Corps Centre, production company featuring three short promotional videos for the British Army's Challenger 2 main battle tank	Imperial War Museum (IWM) Department of Documents	MIL 540	See Annual Return 2017
26	c1940-1979: army staff duties record cards, recording movements of the Leicestershire Regiment	Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for	DE9559
27	1990-2018: Directorate of Defence Communications: records	Imperial War Museum (IWM) Department of Documents	2018-08-01	See Annual Return 2018
28	c1929: record of Service sheets for Royal Ordnance Factory workers	Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre	DD70	See Annual Return 2019
29	1909-1995: series of files incl material rel to the Second World War, equipment developments, uniform development, Op Granby, Op Grapple, Army Dress Committee minutes, NATO papers, Territorial Army	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	2020-02-16	See Annual Return 2020

Related record creators
	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	War Department	War Department became War Office from c1857, though original name was still in use. War Office became Ministry of Defence in 1964.		Associative