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 ...
The series comprises the following sub-series: IOR/L/MIL/14/1-49 Indian Army Service Statements, 1892-1916 IOR/L/MIL/14/50-107 Promotions and Alterations in HM's Indian Army and other Indian Services, 1866-1947 IOR/L/MIL/14/108-127 Government of India Lists if Promotions, 1888-1935 IOR/L/MIL/14/1...
Miscellaneous and fragmentary collection of lists and returns for British Army Officers, NCOs and Other Ranks. The small amount of original material covering British Army units stationed in India is divided into the following sub-series: IOR/L/MIL/15/1-4 Officers of British Army regiments in Indi...
The records in IOR/L/MIL/16 can be divided into 1) Statements of service and furlough for RIM/RIN personnel c1840-c1947 2) World War II service files mainly for RIN Reserve and Volunteer Reserve officers 3) A series of subject files relating to recruitment, training etc. 4) Additional World War I...
Both the Military Department and the Political and Secret Department built up working reference collections, or 'libraries', which were housed within their offices in the India Office building and which was kept apart from the main India Office accumulation of Official Publications. The Military ...