War Office: Officers Services (including Civilian Dependants and Civilian and Military...

Description and record details

Reference	WO 340
Title	War Office: Officers Services (including Civilian Dependants and Civilian and Military Staff Appointments): Registers
Date	1870-1958
Description	This series contains records of officers services comprising registers relating to correspondence in the personal files of Army Officers.
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
Accruals	No future accruals expected
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.

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