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==''Monthly Army List''==
''Monthly Army List'' was an official War Office publication, which commenced August 1881 under this title and ceased after May 1940. (No issues published for Dec. 1897 and Jan. 1898). Based on library catalogues, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, and the National Library of Scotland may have the best collections. The British Library holds a broken range of editions from October 1881 (UIN: BLL01013821218), and another holding at the BL as part of IOR/L/MIL/1/79-1536, the latter to July 1940. The National Archives also holds Monthly Lists which are part of the Library collection<ref>David_Underdown. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/228278-army-list-copies-at-kew/?do=findComment&comment=2273267 Army List - copies at Kew?] ''Great War Forum'' 13 June 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2018.</ref>, however the date range is unclear. The [[National Army Museum]] appears to hold a limited number of editions before and after the WW1 period.
For at least some war periods a Confidential or "Security Edition" was also published with known editions August 1939 (available online) and September 1939, and it seems possible that ''Monthly List''s may have been continued after May 1940, to 1943, solely on a Confidential basis.<ref>From a comment in the British Library catalogue UIN: BLL01001094682 .</ref>
Note the ''Monthly Army List'' was a continuation of an earlier monthly publications. A private Monthly Army List appeared between 1798 and 1808, succeeded in January 1809 by the monthly publication ''The Army List'' published with official sanction, which was also published on a monthly basis made an official publication in 1854. ''The Army List'' and is available at the British Library with given date range 1809-1881. UIN: BLL01013821246 .There is also another holding at the BL as part of IOR/L/MIL/1/79-1536, from January 1817. Quarterly indexes (Jan, Apr, Oct) appeared from April 1868 to October 1873, replaced by monthly indexes from February 1874, and a separate quarterly Retired List with its own index appeared from October 1881 to October 1897. Between May 1915 and April 1917 a separate monthly supplement of promotions, appointments and casualties was issued, becoming quarterly from July 1917 to April 1920. A separate half-yearly (Jun, Dec) supplement of the Reserve and Territorial Forces, rewards, undisposed balances etc. was issued between December 1923 and December 1938.<ref>Catalogue entry [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/a58afb63-f05c-43d0-9802-8216773aa567 British Army: Monthly Army List OR/L/MIL/1/79-1536] discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk</ref>
Some libraries may hold editions on microfiche. As an example, the National Library of Australia holds two editions of ''The Army List'' on microfiche published by M M Publications Lidgate, [England]
