Metadata: War Office: Peacetime Operations Abroad, War Diaries and Headquarters Records
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The National Archives (UK)
- Holding institution (official language):
- The National Archives (UK)
- Postal address:
- KewRichmondLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomTW9 4DU
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 8876 3444
- Web address:
- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
- Reference number:
- WO 191
- Title:
- War Office: Peacetime Operations Abroad, War Diaries and Headquarters Records
- Title (official language):
- War Office: Peacetime Operations Abroad, War Diaries and Headquarters Records
- Date(s):
- 1927/1948
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 90 file(s)
- Scope and content:
- This series contains war diaries and related papers of British Empire forces deployed, for the most part, in the inter-war period in various locations around the world. These include campaigns in Abyssinia (1935 to 1936), Egypt (1935 to 1936), India (1930 to 1937), Palestine (1936-1938) and Shanghai (1927 to 1932). Also included are some papers relating to British peace-keeping activities in Palestine from 1945 until the end of the British Mandate in May 1948.
- Subject terms:
- Mandatory Palestine
- Military
- Access, restrictions:
- UK public records, open for research unless otherwise stated in The National Archives' catalogue
- Finding aids:
-
More information is available in The National Archives' catalogue.
Research guidance is available on The National Archives' website.
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
