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*Editions from 1840 are available on the [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000534236 HathiTrust Digital Library]. From 1880 limited access editions are available, probably accessible by those in North America. All these editions have the advantage that the pages can be rotated.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28A+list+of+the+general+and+field-officers%29&sort=date ''A List of the General and Field-Officers, as they rank in the Army''…] 1758-1781. 1781 title is ''A list of all the officers of the Army''. Archive.org. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002135130 1766] HathiTrust Digital Library.
*HathiTrust Digital Library has the following editions of ''A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines'' [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000045795 1791, 1794-1804, 1821] and [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010308144 1782 and 1811- 1856 (broken range)]. All these editions have the advantage that the pages can be rotated. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28Great+Britain+War+Office%29+AND+title%3A%28A+list+of+the+officers+of+the+army%29&sort=date Archive.org editions]. Also search in [http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search Google Books] for other editions of ''A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines'' 1778-1855 (incomplete series) and [http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1,bkv:p&tbo=p&q=intitle:New+intitle:Army+intitle:List&num=10 ''New Army List''] 1840-1869 (incomplete series). For the latter series, some additional volumes may be found if they are searched for individually.
*Annual ''Army List''s (various titles) 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. They can also be viewed online, although personal experience was that this was a slow process, as each page was slow to load. For more details see TNA Discovery catalogue record for [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C14273 WO 65]. These are '''official''' annual publications, published by the War Office. The title for 1877-78, record WO 65/162, is ''A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Royal Marine Forces, Corrected throughout to the 31st March 1877. 1877-1878''. By Authority. HMSO 1877.
*[[Findmypast]], pay website, 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.
*Also see [[Military periodicals Army List for British Army online#Quarterly Army List|Quarterly Army List]] below, for databases on other pay websites such as Ancestry and TheGenealogist.
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[[Findmypast]], pay website, 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. See below the following table, for Ancestry and The Genealogist databases (pay websites).
'''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. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/236726-army-list-lookup/?do=findComment&comment=2369451 Army List lookup], posts 4 and 10. ''Great War Forum'' 26 February 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2018.</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 Army List for British Army online#''Monthly Army List''|''Monthly Army List'']].
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<br> Many [[Military periodicals Army List for British Army online#''Monthly Army List''|''Monthly Army List''s]] are available from 1920, see next section.
The [https://archive.org/details/nationallibraryofscotland National Library of Scotland at Archive.org] has editions from '''December 1938 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'']. Note [[Military periodicals online#''Monthly Army List''|''Monthly Army List''s]] are available from 1937 on the NLS website, see next section.
[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=74FEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1 ''The Army List '''1949'''''] "Corrected generally to 15 November 1948". HMSO 1949. Google Books
[[Findmypast]], pay website, 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, (and WW1, and earlier years as detailed above).
