Papers relating to the promotion and retirement of Army officers, chiefly arising from the Army Regulation Act of 1871 which abolished the purchase system. Partly printed.
Miscellaneous War Office correspondence. Subjects include the repair of British cemeteries in the Crimea, the case of Sir Henry Havelock-Allen (b. 1830, d. 1897) and his loss of promotion under the Army Regulation Act, and the proposed establishment of a Temperance Institute for the garrison at...
Miscellaneous War Office papers. Contents include: 1. Papers relating to William Hope, V.C., and his claim to have invented the shrapnel shell. 2. Printed memoranda on army pensions, the management of Chelsea Hospital, and other matters. 3. Papers relating to the proposal to make Oxford a mil...
Papers relating to the Committee on Control. The Committee was set up under Lansdowne’s chairmanship to investigate the organisation of the Control Department, which was responsible for the supply of military stores, ordnance and ammunition.
Parliamentary papers relating to Ireland. Mostly printed, with some related notes and correspondence. 1. Report of the Board of Public Works (Ireland), 1872. 2. Peace Preservation (Ireland) Act, 1873. 3. Juries (Ireland) Act, 1873. 4. Act to amend the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1873.
Papers on Army recruitment. Mostly printed, including a paper issued to prospective recruits entitled The Army and its Advantages (1872), the Proceedings of a Committee appointed to Enquire into the System of Clothing the Militia and Army Reserve (1872), and other parliamentary papers and War Of...
Papers on the Ashanti War. Partly printed, including parliamentary papers, Colonial Office memoranda, and newspaper cuttings, with a few items of correspondence, including letters from Edward Cardwell (Secretary of State for War), Thomas Digby Pigott (clerk at the War Office) and Major-General G...