Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General,...

Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies relating to the administration of the armed forces.

Comprises records of: General War Office recordsChief of the (Imperial) General Staff and its directoratesCommander-in-Chief, Military Secretary and Army CouncilArmy Medical servicesOther administrative departments of the War OfficeFinance departmentsCentral Department of the Permanent Secretary of StateLand BranchBoard of General OfficersRoyal Chelsea and Kilmainham HospitalsConstable of the Tower of LondonResearch establishmentsArmed forces records from commands, headquarters, regiments and corpsAuxiliary forcesArmy in IrelandArmed forces service recordsPrivate office papers and private collectionsCommissions, committees and councils, etcOrdnance Office and its War Office successorsJudge Advocate General

WO 56, WO 125, WO 200, WO 249 and WO 289 are numbers not used.

WO 20 and WO 21 were transferred to other series before 1905.