![]() ![]() Each volume of the Army List has an alphabetical list of regiments: find the title of the regiment, and turn to the page indicated which lists the various designations over time of its component parts. To do this, you should consult the Army List. ![]() If you are working backwards through the musters, you may need to find the previous regimental number of a 2nd battalion. The arrangement of WO 16 reflects the re-organisation of the army following the Cardwell-Childers reforms. All infantry regiments were placed into numbered regimental districts.The lower number became the 1st battalion and the higher number became the 2nd battalion (thus, the 28th Foot and the 61st Foot became the 1st and 2nd Battalions respectively of the Gloucester Regiment).Each ‘new’ regiment was to have two battalions, as the first 25 Foot regiments already did.Regiments from the 26th Foot onwards were paired together to form new regiments (for example, the 28th Foot and the 61st Foot became the Gloucester Regiment).Infantry regiments, which had been known by numbers (for example, 28th Foot), were to become known by a title, usually a county.The Childers reforms of 1881 (a process which began with the Cardwell reforms of the 1870s) led to major changes within infantry (foot) regiments: 4.1 Re-organisation of the Army: the Cardwell-Childers reforms ![]() There are some difficulties in using WO 16, caused by the re-organisation of the Army in 1881. From 1888 onwards, the series contains only muster rolls, there are no longer any pay lists and by 1898 muster rolls were no longer kept by the War Office either. How to search for musters and pay lists 1878-1898įrom 1878 to 1898, all muster rolls and pay lists are in WO 16. Records of some soldiers’ children may be found among the papers of the Duke of York’s School and the Royal Hibernian School in WO 143, from 1801. The two merged in 1856, as the Royal Engineers WO 12 Please note, a selection are available online via Ancestry ( £) – some of them are name searchableįrom 1816 to 1856, the musters are principally of the Royal Corps of Sappers and Miners, and list only NCOs and other ranks. Household troops, cavalry, guards, regular infantry, special regiments and corps, colonial troops, foreign legions and regiments, and regimental, brigade and other depots For those covering the date of the Battle of Waterloo you can also search by an individual’s name. Please note, a small selection of muster rolls and pay lists from WO 12 are available online via Ancestry ( £). The first entry for a recruit in a muster book usually gives his age, place of enlistment and trade. To view the muster roll or pay list itself you will need to order the original document. If you are searching within WO 69, search by name of non-commissioned officer or soldier within WO 69. The musters are bound together in annual volumes for each regiment and are held in the War Office ( WO) series, listed below.Įach series is searchable in Discovery, our catalogue. Search by name of regiment and specify the appropriate record series from the table below. To trace a man’s army career by way of the musters, you will have to know the name of his regiment. How to search for musters and pay lists c.1730-1878 They provide a soldier’s:įrom about 1868 musters may also include Marriage Rolls giving details of children and wives occupying married quarters. They are found at the end of each quarter (or the beginning for regiments stationed in India). Muster rolls and pay lists contain soldiers’:įrom 1868 to 1883 there may be quarterly lists which contain details of ‘men becoming non-effective’. They, along with pay lists, were effectively the main everyday service records kept by the army of men in active service. Regimental musters, from the early 18th century onwards, were taken every month or quarter (frequency varied over the years) for pay and accounting purposes. ![]()
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