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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Level [36] Series

211. IOR/L/MIL/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/4
Title:
India Office Military Department Internal Papers or 'Put By', 'No Reply' and Transfer Papers
Scope & Content:
This series contains mainly registers on the movement of papers between the Military Department and other India Office Departments, and on internal organisation and procedures. It is divided into 14 sub-series. Additional information on the sub-series may be found below.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1858-1957
Extent:
79 volumes

212. IOR/L/MIL/5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5
Title:
Military Compilations and Miscellaneous Records
Scope & Content:
There are 7 sub-series: L/MIL/5/1-41 Military Department Minute Papers, 1860-1881 L/MIL/5/42-141 Medal Rolls, 1799-1911 L/MIL/5/142-350 Prize and Batta Rolls, 1793-c1886 L/MIL/5/351-361 Miscellaneous Memoranda, 1819-1874 L/MIL/5/362-375 Soldiers' References, 1829-1873 L/MIL/5/376-440 Military Dep...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1754-1944
Extent:
1,076 volumes/files

213. IOR/L/MIL/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/6
Title:
Military Correspondence
Scope & Content:
From 1882 papers coming into the Military Department had formerly been divided into Home Correspondence (L/MIL/2) and Correspondence with India (L/MIL/3), together with India Office minutes and memoranda relating to such papers, and copies of the replies to them, were brought together into a sing...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1882-1948
Extent:
c 5222 files

214. IOR/L/MIL/7

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7
Title:
Military Collections
Scope & Content:
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 IOR/L/MIL/6. Collection 447 is lackin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846-1963
Extent:
19,656 files

215. IOR/L/MIL/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/8
Title:
Military Statements
Scope & Content:
Mostly annual statements of establishment for each Presidency
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1785-1859
Extent:
1 file

216. IOR/L/MIL/9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/9
Title:
Entry to the military, medical and nursing services of the East India Company's Army (1753-1861) and the Indian Army (1861-1940)
Scope & Content:
The series falls into six categories: 1) Recruitment of European private soldiers (1753-1861); 2) Entry of officer cadets (1775-1940); 3) Records of Addiscombe Military Seminary and of the Royal Engineering Establishment, Chatham, (1809-62); 4) Appointments to the Indian Medical Service, Veterina...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1753-1940
Extent:
629 volumes / files

217. IOR/L/MIL/10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/10
Title:
Bengal Army Records
Scope & Content:
The Presidency armies of Bengal, Madras and Bombay originated in small companies of European soldiers and locally enlisted Eurasian or Indian sepoys formed during the seventeenth century to guard the Company's factories. These early forces depended upon the Company's ships for artillery, they we...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1716-1907
Extent:
326 volumes/files

218. IOR/L/MIL/11

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/11
Title:
Madras Army Records
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1759-c 1907
Extent:
c 282 volumes

219. IOR/L/MIL/12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/12
Title:
Bombay Army Records
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1708-1914
Extent:
c 286 volumes

220. IOR/L/MIL/13

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/13
Title:
St Helena Records
Scope & Content:
St Helena was occupied by the East India Company in 1659 and the island quickly became an important link in the trading system. A plantation economy using slave labour supplied fresh provisions for the Company's ships making the homeward voyage, which normally waited for each other at the island ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1789-1859
Extent:
15 volumes

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