Catalogue description War Office: Officers Services (including Civilian Dependants and Civilian and Military Staff Appointments): Registers
Reference: | WO 340 |
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Title: | War Office: Officers Services (including Civilian Dependants and Civilian and Military Staff Appointments): Registers |
Description: |
This series contains records of officers services comprising registers relating to correspondence in the personal files of Army Officers. |
Date: | 1870-1958 |
Arrangement: |
The registers are arranged in Long Number order. Long Numbers were not service numbers but were the references given to correspondence. |
Related material: |
For the indexes to the registers of officers' services see WO 338 For the correspondence to which these registers relate see WO 339 For related personal files see WO 374 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Physical description: | 13 volume(s) |
Access conditions: | Open |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1999 Ministry of Defence |
Selection and destruction information: | A small selection of the registers were kept as an example of the administration of Army officers prior to 1922. 13 of the 329 registers of correspondence were selected as an illustrative example of at least one of each type of register, together with a scattering of the Officers registers, which were the majority, and one of four destruction registers. |
Accruals: | No future accruals expected |
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