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Catalogue description Military Collections
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| Reference: | IOR/L/MIL/7 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Military Collections |
| Description: |
A particularly vast, valuable and accessible assembly of documents on all aspects of military policy and administration. The Military Collections, amounting to almost 20,000 files, represent stage 4 of the disposal alternatives outlined in the introduction to L/MIL/6. They are listed in detail in the registers Z/L/MIL/7/1-2. The list of L/MIL/7 below merely gives the sub-series titles of the Military Collections as they appear in the registers, plus covering dates and the overall IOR reference number. Copies of the registers and associated indexes Z/L/MIL/7/3-4, with modern IOR reference number marked against each file in the registers, are available in the Reading Room to provide access to individual files. The index gives references to collection and file numbers, which must be checked in the Register of Military Collections in order to obtain the current IOR reference number. The index was not compiled upon modern principles but is arranged according to the criteria which seemed important to the clerks of the Military Department Registry, ie. it is used as a way into broad areas of precedent but it is of little use in following individual points. For the latter it is necessary to use the various Registers and Indexes of the Military Correspondence, from which the collections were made up [see the introduction to L/MIL/6]. The principal subjects covered in the index include: Abors Abyssinia Academies Accidents Accommodation, quarters, on transports etc. Accountant-General's Department Accountants Accounts: MIlitary Accounts Department; defalcations and irregularities, etc. Active Service Addiscombe Addresses Aden: administration, defences, garrison etc. Adjutants Adjutants-General Administration Admiralty Advances of pay Advertisements Afghanistan, operations etc. Africa Age Agreements Aides-de-Camp, appointments Air Ministry Weekly Orders Aliens Allotments Allowances Amalgamation Ambulances and Ambulance Corps America Ammunition Anglo-Indians Annuities Ante-date Appeals Appointments: questions as to authority for making Arabia Arbitration Architects Armament, artillery, coast, inland and frontier, RIM vesels etc. Armour Armourers and Armament Artificers Arms Army Act Army Council Army Council Instructions Army Department Army Headquarters (India) Army Hospital Corps Army Instructions India Army legislation Army List, British and Indian Arrears Arsenals Artificers, armament, civil, for ordnance factories and RIM dockyards etc. Artificial limbs Artillery, officers and other ranks Artillery (Field and Horse) Artillery (Mountain) Assam Assignment Asylums Attaches Attachments Attestation Auditor and auditing Auxiliary Force (India); Aviation: equipment, RAF officers, other ranks, miscellaneous Badges Baggage Baluchistan Bands Banks Barrack Department Barracks Batta Beer Bengal Army Bhootan Bodyguards Bombay Army Bonus Books, Admiralty and War Office publications Boots Bounty Boys Brevets Brokerage Bulls and bullocks Burial Burma Cables Cadets, King's and Queen's India Cadets Cadet Colleges Camels Camps Canada Canteens Cantonements Cantonement Department Caps Capitation: allowances and rates Caste Casualties Cavalry, British and Indian Censors and censorship Ceremonies Certificates Ceylon Chaplains Charge pay and allowance Chargers Chelsea Hospital Chemists Children Childrens' allowances China Chitral Cholera Cinemas and cinematography Civil Civil employ Class composition of regiments Clerks Clothing Coal Codes Coinage Colleges Collisions Colonels Colonel's allowances Colonial Colours Command: power of Command pay Commandants Commander-in-Chief Commands, divisional, higher, district, brigade, regimental etc. Commissions (Formal) Committees, Army in India (Esher), Indian Sandhurst (Skeen), Chatfield, Imperial Defence, Braithwaite etc. Commutation Compassionate allowance, special grants Compensation, e.g. to relatives, injuries, ships and transport Conferences, Indian Round Table, League of Nations Disarmament Confidential reports Contracts Controversies with War Office Conventions Cooking Coronation Cost (incidence of) Courts martial Cyphers Defence Force (Indian) Defences, coast Earthquakes: Quetta 1935 Education: Army Educational Corps Effects Egypt Electric light and electrification Embarkation and disembarkation Employers on Imperial duty of troops on Indian establishment Engineers (RE officers, eg. leave, pay, pensions Engineers (RE other ranks) Engineers (RE): eg. administration, establishment Engineers, civilians Enlistment Equipment, machine gun etc. Establishments Estates Exchange, rate of Exchange compensation allowance Exhibitions Expenditure Explosives Families Farms Farriers Fees Field allowance Fines Flags Fodder, forage etc. Followers Foreign Funds, Military Service Family Pension Fund, relief funds Funerals Garrison, outside India Gas (poison) Gazette (London) Gazette of India General List General officers Gifts Gratuity Graves, memorials etc. Guarantee Guardians Gurkhas Half-pay Harbours Health Helmets High Commissioners History Hong Kong Honorarium Honorary rank Honours, eg. Regimental, Birthday and New Year, DSC Hospitals in England Hospitals in India, station hospitals etc. Hospitals, miscellaneous Hospital treatment Income Tax India Office Indian Army, establishments, organisation, training etc. Indianisation Infantry Inoculation Inspections Institutes Instruction (officers), IMS, RE etc. Instruction (other ranks) Insurance Intelligence Intemperance Interchange Interpreters Inventions Investments Iraq Japan Japanese King (HM) Kit Kit allowance Kohat Lance rank Languages, Eastern, European Lascars Last pay certificates League of Nations Leave: officers, other ranks etc. Leave pay, officers, other ranks Legal adviser: decisions Legislation Levies Local allowances Lodging, fuel and lighting allowances Machine guns and Machine Gun Companies Maintenance Majors Manoeuvres Marine (RIM and RIN): officers, warrant officers, pay, pensions etc. Marriage and marriage allowance Married establishment Meat Mechanical transport, personnel, equipment Medals, British War, India, Meritorious Service etc Medical (IMS), establishment, leave, pay etc. Medical (IMD), leave, pay etc. Medical (RAMC), establishment, leave, pay etc. Medical: miscellaneous Medical Board (India Office) Medical Boards Mediacl treatment: Indian Army officers and families, British Service officers, Indian Army other ranks etc. Memoranda Messes and messing Military Department (India Office) Military Secretary (India Office) Military Works Service Mobilisation Mules and muleteers Munitions Murders Museums and exhibitions Musketry Mustering-out Mutiny Nationality Naturalisation Naval (RN): officers, vessels etc. Naval, miscellaneous Newspapers Non-Effective List North-West Frontier, defences etc. Notice of termination of agreement etc Nurses (QAMNS India etc.), establishment, leave, pay etc. Nurses, domestic etc. Officiating appointments Oil Operations Orderly Officers Ordnance, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Indian Army Ordnance Corps, Indian Ordnance Department, Ordnance Corps Officer and Army Ordnance Corps Officer Osborne Convalescent Home Outfit Outfit allowance Over-issues of pay Over-issues of pension Parliamentary Passages, officers, families of officers, other ranks etc. Paupers Pay, British Service officers, WOs, NCOs and men, Indian Army officers, Indian officers etc. Pay Masters Penalties Pensionary contributions Pensions, officers, good service, WOs, NCOs and men etc. Persia Persian Gulf Personal allowance Personal staff Petitions Photographs Pioneers Plague Police Port Officers Postal Posting Precedence Princes Prisoners Prisoners of war, in India, in foreign countries etc. Probation Procedure Promotion, officers and other ranks Public Works Department Publication Quarter Masters Quartermaster-General Railways Range-finders Rank, acting, honorary, temporary etc. Rations Ration allowance Recall Recoveries Recruitment and recruits Red Cross Re-employment Reforms Regulations, Army in India, Marine, Pay, Passage etc. Reinforcements Reinstatement Reliefs Religion Remand Remounts Rent Reports, progress, miscellaneous Reserve, British Army, IARO, AIRO Reserves Resignation Restoration to pension Retention Retirement: British and Indian Army officers, WOs and NCOs Retrenchment Reversion Rosters Royal Family Royal Warrants Russian Salutes Sanatoria Sanitary Sappers & Miners Schools Schoolmasters and mistresses Searchlights Seconding Secretaries of State Selection Boards Seniority Separation Separation allowance Sergeants Service: for pension and increases of pay, for promotion etc. Services: appreciations of Shipwreck Shore allowance Siam Signals, Corps of: officers etc. Signals, miscellaneous Silladar Somaliland Specialists Staff Staff allowance Staff appointments Staff College Staff pay Stationery Status Stores Stores (India Store Department) Storekeepers Study Study leave Subsistence Subsistence allowance Supernumerary Supernumerary List Supplies Supply & Transport: RASC officers and other ranks, S & T, RIASC officers and other ranks Surplus officers Surveys and surveying Telegrams and telegraphy Telephones and telephony Temperance Tents Tenure Territorial Force Territorial Force (India) Time Time-expired Tours of duty Training Transfer: to Indian Army and IMS etc. Transport, land and sea Travelling Travelling allowance Troop Service Trophies Unattached List:other ranks etc. Unemployed List Unemployed Pay Unemployment Uniforms Uniform allowance Universities Vaccinations Vagrancy Veterinary Department Viceroy Voyage pay Voyages War Office Water supply Waziristan Wireless telegraphy Wound pensions: officers, other ranks, Indians etc. X-rays YMCA |
| Date: | c1850-1950 |
| Related material: |
For registers and indexes see Z/L/MIL/7 |
| Held by: | British Library: Asian and African Studies, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 19,656 files |
| Access conditions: |
Open |
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