Organization
Methods for British Military Records
by Alan Mann
April
3, 2001
Different ways of keeping
& organizing records for armed forces
1. Regularly by Unit (after 1883 by corps)
a. Regiment (Army)
or Ship Navy)
b. Army sometime
divided into Infantry or Cavalry
2. Exceptions to unit organization
a. Cavalry
sometimes combined or by Company
b. Records may be
kept by rank (gunners, purchase,...)
c. Date of
discharge, death, or event determines series
i. 1640-1660
ii. 1661-1872
iii. 1855-1872
iv. 1872-1883
v. 1883-1914
vi. 1914-1918
(1921)
vii. 1918 or
1921-present
d. Campaign (medals, bounty, etc.)
- Pensions -- payment records
separate
- Other
3.
Non-military organizations
a. Royal Navy
b. Ordnance (Artillery,
Engineers, Sappers & Miners)
c. Commissary General
(quartermasters)
d. Auxiliary (chaplain,
surgeon)
e. Royal Marines (by division)
f Militia
g. Coast Guard
h. Territorial armies (before
1898)
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