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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/MIL Digitised Content No Level [36] Series

1. IOR/L/MIL/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/1
Title:
Records of the Military Committees of the East India Company and Council of India
Scope & Content:
These mostly comprise minutes, reports and correspondence of the Company's Committee of Correspondence, Political and Military Committee and Military Seminary Committee. Some later records of the Council of India's Military Committee are also included. There are 10 sub-series. Additional informat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1809-1937
Extent:
91 volumes

2. IOR/L/MIL/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/2
Title:
Military Home Correspondence
Scope & Content:
There are three sub-series of Military Home Correspondence: Two main sub-series comprise: [1] letters to which no answer was sent, or which were answered in printed form: IOR/L/MIL/2/1-720 Military Home Correspondence: Letters Received 1830-1860. The letters are arranged in the order of the date ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1830-1881
Extent:
2,069 volumes

3. IOR/L/MIL/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/3
Title:
Military Correspondence with India
Scope & Content:
The series comprises 35 sub-series. In addition to the main sub-series of Military Letters received and Despatches sent, Marine Letters received are included from 1867. There are also separate sub-series of Secret Military Letters (1906-35) and Despatches (1904-30) and Secret and Confidential Mil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1803-1937
Extent:
2,547 volumes

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

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