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Showing posts with label army forms and attestations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label army forms and attestations. Show all posts
Sunday, 28 October 2018

War Office Form WO.1143

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This form would later become the ubiquitous Army Form B.178 and would go through many design iterations. A prime example of its useful...

War Office Form WO.83 - Discharge

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This, somewhat tatty example of WO.83 is commonly seen in soldiers' files in WO 97 at The National Archives. The information at the...
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Army Form B.5112 - Medal receipt card

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There must have been millions of these cards in circulation in the early 1920s. This particular run was printed in September 1921 and t...
Saturday, 27 October 2018

Army Form W.3291 - Classification Certificate

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Army Form W.3291 first saw the light of day in August 1916 and this version dates from October 1916. It was certainly used for men who ...
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Army Form W.3491 - Medical Board examination

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This particular version of Army From W.3491 was printed in November 1916. The man in question here was a Derby Scheme recruit who had o...
Tuesday, 9 October 2018

Army Form B.50 - Soldiers' Small Book

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Army Form B.50 was the Soldiers' Small Book which contained his personal details as well as notes and observations designed to be ...
Saturday, 7 October 2017

Army Form 11238 - Syphilis case sheet

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Venereal disease was a huge problem in the British Army. As Alan Ramsay Skelley writes in The Victorian Army at Home , "The incide...

Army Form W.3484B - Approval of Discharge under King's Regs, Para 392 (xvi)

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Those of us who have studied First World War service will be very familiar with men being discharged under paragraph 392 (xvi) of King...
Friday, 28 April 2017

Army Form B.133 - drivers

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This attestation form for Army Service Corps drivers was first introduced in January 1903 in a print-run of 5000. Terms of service ...
Monday, 30 January 2017

Documents on Discharge

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"When a soldier is to be discharged..." so begins the opening sentence on the back of this form, "the documents specifie...
Sunday, 15 January 2017

Army Form B.131 - Clinical Chart

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I've had this image on my desktop for ages. I shudder to think of the thousands of images from soldiers' service paperts that I...
Friday, 18 November 2016

Army Form B.179 - Medical History of an Invalid

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This four-page form was in common usage in Her Majesty's Army and this particular example dates to 1896. It would ultimately be rep...
Saturday, 5 November 2016

Army Form D.489 - Certificate of Sobriety & Trustworthiness

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This documents is very much of its era. Even contemplating issuing such a form these days would no doubt be seen as an infringement of ...
Sunday, 6 March 2016

Army Form E.522 - Militia Reserve Attestation

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"The Militia Reserve", states the Army Book for the British Empire, published in 1893, "is a force, institited in 1867...
Sunday, 7 June 2015

Army Form E.504 - Militia Attestation

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  There are plenty of these forms in WO 363 (First World War service records), WO 364 (pension records)  and, of course, WO 96 (militia...
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Monday, 23 March 2015

Army Form B.217 - Foot Guards attestation

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  By my own calculations, Army Form B.217 must originally date to between June 1883 and February 1884. The image above is the second it...
Sunday, 15 March 2015

Army Form B.248 - Short Service 9&3 -1906

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  Army Form B.248 was a short service attestation form originally introduced in January 1906 in a print-run of 100,000. The terms of se...
Sunday, 1 March 2015

Army Form B.120 - Regimental Conduct Sheet

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  Almost identical to Army Form B.121 which I covered in an earlier post, these forms are commonly seen in WO 363 and WO 364 and can be...
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Sunday, 22 February 2015

Effects Form 118A

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    How much misery, despair and distress is recorded on these sad forms I wonder. It is what is says on the tin: details of personal...
Saturday, 24 January 2015

Army Form B.179a - Medical Report on a soldier...

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This is a useful four-page document which not only gives crucial information about a soldier's age, regiment and enlistment date, but...