Catalogue description War Office: Women's Services in East Africa, Nurses and Other Ranks: Service Records
Reference: | WO 427 |
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Title: | War Office: Women's Services in East Africa, Nurses and Other Ranks: Service Records |
Description: |
This series consists of 471 service records of nurses and other ranks (not officers), as well as some civilians, who served or were employed in a range of roles in number of different womens services as part of the British Army in East Africa during the Second World War and immediately after. Individuals may have served in other regiments/corps during the course of their careers (details of which may be recorded on their service record), but this series contains those whose service usually ended in one of the following:
Civilians employed within one of the above services were normally classified as follows:
The types of documents that are most commonly found within the service records comprising this series are:
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Date: | [1939-1963] |
Arrangement: |
Some pieces appear to have been organised according to surname or date of birth, however for large parts of this series there is no discernible order to the pieces. |
Related material: |
For soldiers service records pre-1914 see WO 97 For First World War soldiers documents see WO 363 For First World War soldiers documents see WO 364 For soldiers service records relating to the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) see WO 420 For soldiers service records relating to selected smaller corps during the Second World War period see WO 421 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Physical description: | 471 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2020 Ministry of Defence |
Accruals: | No further accruals expected. |
Administrative / biographical background: |
The service records for individuals in these units were originally administered by East Africa Command and held at the Military Record Office, Nairobi. This Record Office provided a location for the administration of service (as well as other) records to a number of units recruited and/or administered in East Africa during and immediately after the Second World War. In 1959, instructions were issued relating to records held overseas in various records offices across former United Kingdom territories. Records of locally enlisted personnel were offered for ultimate custody to the Colonial Governments concerned. Those which were not accepted, or included personnel of British origin, were transferred to record offices in the United Kingdom and, ultimately, to Ministry of Defence custody. |
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