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Catalogue description War Office: Papers of Various Private Collections
| Reference: | WO 79 |
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| Title: | War Office: Papers of Various Private Collections |
| Description: |
These records consist of certain small collections of papers including: a few musters, 1709 to 1743; records of Militia, fencible and Volunteer units, 1797 to 1819; records of the Paymaster General, 1762 and 1795 to 1851; records relating to the garrison of Colchester Barracks, 1796 to 1823; records of the Connaught Rangers and Galway and Roscommon Militias, 1793 to 1919; papers of Field Marshal Earl Cavan, 1916 to 1937; papers of Sir Stanley Von Donop as master general of the ordnance; and maps and other papers of Sir William Thomson relating to campaigns in Mesopotamia, Russia, Salonika and India, 1915-1923. |
| Date: | 1709-1965 |
| Related material: |
For other papers of the Earl of Cavan see WO 216 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Sir Stanley Brenton Donop, Knight, 1860-1941 Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, 1865-1946 Sir William Montgomerie Thomson, Knight, 1877-1963 |
| Physical description: | 106 papers, flat sheets and volumes |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Unpublished finding aids: |
A key to the former references is available with the paper list in the Reader Enquiry Room, Public Record Office, Kew. |
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