British Army List
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The British Army List is a list (or more accurately seven series of lists) of serving regular, militia
or territorial British Army
officers, kept in one form or another, since 1702.
Manuscript lists of army officers were kept from 1702–1752, the first official list being published in 1740.
Militia
The term militia is commonly used today to refer to a military force composed of ordinary citizens to provide defense, emergency law enforcement, or paramilitary service, in times of emergency without being paid a regular salary or committed to a fixed term of service. It is a polyseme with...
or territorial British Army
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
officers, kept in one form or another, since 1702.
Manuscript lists of army officers were kept from 1702–1752, the first official list being published in 1740.
Regular army
- Annual Army Lists, 1754–1879
- Quarterly Army Lists (First Series), 1879–1922
- Half-Yearly Army Lists, 1923 - Feb 1950 (From 1947, annual, despite the name)
- Modern Army Lists, 1951-Ongoing
- Part 1; serving officers.
- Part 2; retired officers, as of 2011 four-yearly
- Part 3; the Gradation List, a short biography of officers, a restricted publication not generally available.
Other lists
- Monthly Army Lists, 1798-June 1940. Officers of colonial, militia and territorial units are included.
- Quarterly Army Lists (Second Series), July 1940-December 1950. These superseded the Monthly Army Lists, and, for the remainder of World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
were not published but produced as confidential documents, monthly or bi-monthly until December 1943 and quarterly until April 1947, then three times a year, April, August and December. - Home GuardHome Guard-Military:*British Home Guard*Combat Groups of the Working Class *Confederate Home Guard, during the American Civil War*Croatian Home Guard and Imperial Croatian Home Guard*Danish Home Guard...
List, 1939–1945 - Militia Lists - various militia lists pertaining to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are extant.
- Hart's Army List, an unofficial list, produced between 1839 and 1915, containing details of war service which the official lists started covering only in 1881.
Further reading and bibliography
- The army lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers: containing the names of the officers in the Royal and Parliamentary armies of 1642, Edward Peacock (ed) (1874)
- English army lists and commission registers, 1661–1714, Charles DaltonCharles DaltonSir Charles Dalton was a Prince Edward Island businessman, politician and philanthropist.Charles Dalton was born at Tignish, Prince Edward Island, the son of Patrick Dalton and Margaret McCarthy. He first worked as a farmer and then a druggist...
(ed) (1892–1904) - Henry George Hart, Hart's army list : the new army list exhibiting the rank, standing, and various services of every officer in the Army on full pay (1839-)
- William SpencerWilliam SpencerWilliam Spencer may refer to:* William Spencer , American actor* William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer , British peer* William B. Spencer , U.S. Representative from Louisiana...
, Army service records of the First World War (seventh edition, 2006)
External links
- British Army Lists (National Archives' Research Guide)
- Hart's Army List at the Internet ArchiveInternet ArchiveThe Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive...