Catalogue description Office of the Commander-in-Chief and War Office: Adjutant General and Army Council: Inspection Returns

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Reference: WO 27
Title: Office of the Commander-in-Chief and War Office: Adjutant General and Army Council: Inspection Returns
Description:

These chiefly consist of completed inspection forms returned to the Adjutant General and, from 1904, to the Army Council, giving a general report on the condition of each regiment, the numbers of the men, the names of officers present and absent; with confidential reports and reports on the efficiency of the Army and defences.

A large number of these inspection returns contain abstracts of regimental courts martial.

Date: 1750-1914
Related material:

Monthly Returns to the Adjutant General are in WO 17

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Commander-in-Chief, 1795-1870

War Office, Army Council, 1904-1964

War Office, Commander-in-Chief, 1870-1904

Physical description: 511 volume(s)
Access conditions: Open

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