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The ''Army List'' is a list (or more accurately seven series of lists) of serving regular,
* Annual Army Lists, 1754–1879 (WO 65)
* Quarterly Army Lists (First Series), 1879–1922
* Half-Yearly Army Lists, 1923 – February 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.
The 1740 Army List
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War Office: Printed Annual Army Lists 1754–1879 (WO 65)
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1913 to 1919
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1940 to 1946
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1938 to 1941
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Hart's Army List
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militia
A militia ( ) is a military or paramilitary force that comprises civilian members, as opposed to a professional standing army of regular, full-time military personnel. Militias may be raised in times of need to support regular troops or se ...
or territorial British Army
The British Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of the United Kingdom. the British Army comprises 73,847 regular full-time personnel, 4,127 Brigade of Gurkhas, Gurkhas, 25,742 Army Reserve (United Kingdom), volunteer reserve perso ...
officers, kept in one form or another, since 1702.
Manuscript lists of army officers were kept from 1702 to 1752, the first official list being published in 1740.
Regular army
* Annual Army Lists, 1754–1879 (WO 65)
* Quarterly Army Lists (First Series), 1879–1922
* Half-Yearly Army Lists, 1923 – February 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.
Women
The first woman to appear in a British Army List was Jane Catherine Shaw Stewart when she was appointed toNetley Hospital
The Royal Victoria Hospital or Netley Hospital was a large British Military Hospital, military hospital in Netley, near Southampton, Hampshire, England. Construction started in 1856 at the suggestion of Queen Victoria but its design caused some ...
in May 1863.
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 ofWorld War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
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 Guard
Home guard is a title given to various military organizations at various times, with the implication of an emergency or reserve force raised for local defense.
The term "home guard" was first officially used in the American Civil War, starting ...
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.
See also
* ''Crockford's Clerical Directory
''Crockford's Clerical Directory'' (''Crockford'') is the authoritative directory of Anglican clergy and churches in Great Britain and Ireland, containing details of English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish benefices and churches, and biographies of aro ...
''
* Navy List
References
Notes {{Reflist Further reading and bibliography' * ''The army lists of the Roundheads andCavaliers
The term ''Cavalier'' () was first used by Roundheads as a term of abuse for the wealthier royalist supporters of Charles I of England and his son Charles II of England, Charles II during the English Civil War, the Interregnum (England), Int ...
: 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 Dalton (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 Spencer, ''Army service records of the First World War'' (seventh edition, 2006)
External links
The 1740 Army List
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Google Books
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War Office: Printed Annual Army Lists 1754–1879 (WO 65)
��download for free * Digitised copies of 'Quarterly army lists' fro
1913 to 1919
and fro
1940 to 1946
at
National Library of Scotland
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* Digitised copies of 'Half-yearly army lists' fro1938 to 1941
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National Archives
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Conceptual development
From the Middle Ages i ...
' Research Guide)
Hart's Army List
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Internet Archive
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Directories
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