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IOR/L/MIL/9/107-332
- Record Id:
- 037-000631217
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000631217
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000026.0x0000ce
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/9/107-332
- Title:
- The Entry of Officer Cadets
- Scope & Content:
- Officer cadets were appointed to the East India Company's armies by the patronage of members of the Court of Directors and the Board of Control. Each patron had a fixed quota of nominations for each season, and cadets were 'recommended' to him by a friend or acquaintance. After nomination the cadet had to forward to East India House his formal application, a certificate of age, and relevant testimonials. Final approval was given after he had appeared before the Committee of Correspondence (to 1809), the Military Seminary Committee (1809-1834), or the Political and Military Committee (after 1834). The majority of cadets were appointed 'direct' to their regiments and received their training during their first years of service in India. During the eighteenth century some cadets, referred to as 'country', were actually living in India at the time of their appointment. However, the special technical requirements of the artillery and engineer branches led the Company initially to pay for the training of such cadets at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and then, in 1809, to establish its own Military Seminary at Addiscombe near Croydon. After 1858 all appointments were vested in the Crown. Cadets attended Sandhurst and then served a twelve month probationary period in a British Army regiment before transferring to the Indian service. From 1898 officer cadets from Sandhurst were commissioned immediately onto the Indian Army Unattached List and were allocated to Indian Army regiments upon arrival. But the old patronage system was partially reflected in the institution of Queen's India Cadetships awarded by the India Office, with Royal approval, to the deserving sons of civil servants and officers with previous service in India. The India Office Records do not hold the application papers of Sandhurst trained cadets unless they were awarded Queen's Indian Cadetship or were Unattached List Candidates. During the First World War cadets were selected by competitive examination in England for training at the Wellington or Quetta Cadet Colleges in India, and the prolonged emergency in Afghanistan and the Middle East also led to temporary appointments between 1919 and 1921 During the Second World War large numbers of Emergency Commissions were granted. There are no application papers for this group, but service files survive in IOR/L/MIL/14.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000256868
036-000631099
037-000631217 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/MIL : Records of the Military Department
IOR/L/MIL/9 : Entry to the military, medical and nursing services of the East India Company's Army (1753-1861) and the Indian Army (1861-1940)
IOR/L/MIL/9/107-332 : The Entry of Officer Cadets - Contains:
- IOR/L/MIL/9/107-269 : Cadet Papers (1789-1860) and Cadet Registers (1775-1860)
IOR/L/MIL/9/270-281 : Lists of Rank of Cadets and Assistant-Surgeons
IOR/L/MIL/9/282-291 : Cadet Miscellaneous
IOR/L/MIL/9/292-301 : Queen's and King's India Cadetships
IOR/L/MIL/9/303-319 : Sandhurst Cadets
IOR/L/MIL/9/320-332 : Wellington and Quetta Cadets
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- 032-000256868[0009]/036-000631099[0002]/037-000631217
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- Record Type (Level):
- SubSeries
- Extent:
- 225 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1775
- End Date:
- 1940
- Date Range:
- 1775-1940
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Publications:
- Military Guide, p. 132
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)