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*Annual ''Army List''s from 1754 to 1879 are available to download (free of cost) as pdf files from the [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/digital-microfilm.asp The National Archives Documents Online: Digital Microfilm], under WO 65 records. For more details see TNA Discovery catalogue record for [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C14273 WO 65].
*[[Findmypast]] contains a database "British Army, Army Lists 1839-1946"<ref name=BAAL >[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-army-army-lists-1839-1946 British Army, Army Lists 1839-1946] findmypast.</ref> and a related Browse database (located in Armed Forces & Conflict/Directories & Almanacs). The Lists available seems to be less than the National Library of Scotland coverage.
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The ''Quarterly Army List''s in the table following are on Archive.org, from the collection of the National Library of Scotland. They are also available on the website of the NLS, as [http://digital.nls.uk/97136046 1913-1919 - ''Quarterly Army List''] with transcriptions available, together with a '''Search facility'''.
[[Findmypast]] contains a database "British Army, Army Lists 1839-1946"<ref name=BAAL /> and a related Browse database (located in Armed Forces & Conflict/Directories & Almanacs), with editions from December 1913 to December 1919.
'''Note''': ''Quarterly Army List''s only list regular, career officers and not others such as temporary officers and territorial officers who are to be found in the ''Monthly Army List''s.<ref>rflory. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=236726&p=2369451 Army List lookup], posts 4 and 10. ''Great War Forum'' 26 February 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2016.</ref> The National Library of Scotland has digitised some of its collection of ''Monthly Army List''s which were available on its website mid September 2016. See the section [[Military periodicals online#''Monthly Army List''|''Monthly Army List'']].
The [http://archive.org/details/nationallibraryofscotland National Library of Scotland at Archive.org] has editions from '''July 1939 to December 1946''' - enter "Army List" in search box. They are also available on the website of the NLS, with transcriptions available, together with a '''Search facility''', as [http://digital.nls.uk/97136047 1938-1941 - ''Half-yearly Army List''] and [http://digital.nls.uk/97136048 1940-1946 - ''Quarterly Army List'']
[[Findmypast]] contains a database "British Army, Army Lists 1839-1946"<ref name=BAAL /> and a related Browse database (located in Armed Forces & Conflict/Directories & Almanacs), with Lists from December 1938 to December 1946.
==''Monthly Army List''==
In mid September 2016, the National Library of Scotland released its digitised collection of ''Monthly Army List''s which cover the periods 1914-1919 and 1937-1940. As mentioned above, temporary officers and territorial officers are only to be found in the ''Monthly Army List''s. At least during the [[First World War]], only the Monthly Lists cover the officers in “battalion order”.<ref> rflory [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=228278&p=2267381 Army List - copies at Kew?] ''Great War Forum'' 27 May 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2016.</ref>
