Ordnance Office and War Office: Correspondence

Description and record details

Reference	WO 44
Title	Ordnance Office and War Office: Correspondence
Date	1682-1873
Description	Original correspondence of the Ordnance Office, which, except for a small section of miscellaneous letters, is almost entirely of nineteenth century date. The series also contains a small amount of War Office correspondence after the dissolution of the Ordnance Office in 1855 and the proceedings of the Royal Military Canal Commissioners.
Arrangement	The series is arranged in four broad categories: places (WO 44/1-497), offices (WO 44/498-531), subjects (WO 44/532-713) and miscellaneous (WO 44/714-732).
Related material	For the related registers to the correspondence of the Board of Ordnance and Master General of the Ordnance see WO 45
Held by	The National Archives, Kew
Legal status	Public Record(s)
Language	English
Creator	Ordnance Office, 1683-1855 War Department, 1855-1857 War Office, 1857-1964
Physical description	732 volume(s)
Unpublished finding aids	There are, in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew, indexes to services of officers; services of non-commissioned officers and men; inventors who submitted inventions to the Ordnance Office down to the year 1855; and to in-letters, by subject.
Selection and destruction information	The letters in this series have been weeded.

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