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From: "Tom Tulloch-Marshall" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] Army pensioners
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:29:11 -0000
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Christine - the Attestation and Discharge Papers for men in the British Army
who were discharged to pension pre 1914 are held in record class WO97 at the
National Archives. For the period which will concern you they are original
documents.

The papers are filed in discharge periods, so it's when the man left the
Army which is important, not when he joined. - In your case you will need
either the 1900-1913 file series, or the 1883-1900 series. Within those two
series the papers "are" (not !) filed in alphabetic order and cover all
regiments and corps of the Army. (WO97 is notorious for the state of
disarray which is commonly found inside the file boxes - it is a record
class which suffers particularly badly from "genie attacks").

The filing systems are more complicated prior to 1883, but that will not
affect you. WO97 papers are not individually indexed and you cannot search
the class contents on-line, other than to (sometimes, not always) establish
name ranges within the individual file boxes.
regards
--
Tom Tulloch-Marshall
Great War Military Research
Website > http://www.btinternet.com/~prosearch/index.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "christine MILLER" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:18 PM
Subject: [WW1] Army pensioners


> Hello,
>
> Must apologise for being on the wrong list - but can't at the moment find
anyone else to ask.
> I have just discovered that one of my Grandfathers,George James GREEN was
an Army pensioner in 1911.
> I don't know where to start looking for him. Would appreciate some advice.
> Thank you,
> Christine.
>
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