Army List for British Army online

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New Annual Army List

Volumes are from the Hathi Trust Digital Library, the Archive.org website,with others from Google Books, and the website of the National Library of Scotland.

The title of this commercial publication varied over time: 1840-1853, The New Annual Army List. 1854-1869, The New Annual Army List, and Militia List. 1870-1880, The New Annual Army List, Militia List, and Indian Civil Service List. 1881-1893, The New Annual Army List, Militia List, Yeomanry Cavalry List, and Indian Civil Service List. 1894-1901, The New Annual Army List, Militia List, and Yeomanry Cavalry List. 1902-1903, Hart's Annual Army List, Militia List, and Yeomanry Cavalry List. 1904-1908, Hart's Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List. 1909-1915 Hart's Annual Army List, Special Reserve List and Territorial Force List.

By 1881, the Table of Contents had become more detailed, and it is easier to see the sections which may be relevant for India. In additional to details about the Bengal, Madras and Bombay Armies, which also include Medical Department, Veterinary Department and Ecclesiastical Department details, sections such as Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers and Staff Abroad also contain information about officers in India. From 1904 the title page stated "Containing dates of commissions, and a summary of the war services of nearly every officer in the Army, Supply &c. Departments, Marine and Indian Army, and Indian local forces." Some editions also contain Indian Civil Service Lists, refer Directories online-India List and India Office List for a separate list. The earlier editions, approximately prior to the early 1860s contain less information relevant to India. Editions from the early 1860s to 1880 contain information which may not be indexed.

There were also official publications by the War Office, published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office.(HMSO).

Sources.

• Online Army Lists, from a broken range of dates from 1840 are available at National Library of Scotland on Archive.org. This links displays volumes in the order they were uploaded to Archive.org, and the editions for the earlier years, from 1840, were uploaded first, so appear last on the list.

Note: All these editions are now also available on the website of the National Library of Scotland, including some editions which do not seem to be available on Archive.org, with a Search facility, either for the entire Hart's collection, individual years, or groups of years. A text version of pages is also available if required.

The NLS collection is easier to Search, but it is based on OCR, Optical Character Recognition, which is dependent on the quality of the underlying printing, and scanning. If you do not find what you are looking for, the Archive.org collection is easier to Browse.

• Editions from 1840 are available on the 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.
• 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. 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 1791, 1794-1804, 1821 and 1782 and 1811- 1856 (broken range). All these editions have the advantage that the pages can be rotated. Archive.org editions. Also search in 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 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 Lists (various titles) from 1754 to 1879 are available to download (free of cost) as pdf files from the 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 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" 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 Quarterly Army List below, for databases on other pay websites such as Ancestry and TheGenealogist.

			1854-Contents
		1858-Contents	1859-Contents	1860-Contents
1861-Contents	1862-Contents	1863-Contents	1864-Contents	1865-Contents
1866-Contents	1867-Contents	1868-Contents	1869-Contents	1870-Contents
1871-Contents	1872-Contents	1873-Contents	1874-Contents	1875-Contents
1876-Contents	1877-Contents	1878-Contents	1879-Contents	1880-Contents
1881-Contents	1882-Contents	1883-Contents	1884-Contents	1885-Contents
1886-Contents	1887-Contents	1888-Ccntents	1889-Contents	1890-Contents
1891-Contents	1892-Contents	1893-Contents	1894-Contents	1895-Contents
1896-Contents	1897-Contents	1898-Contents	1899-Contents	1900-Contents
1901-Contents	1902-Contents	1903-Contents	1904-Contents	1905-Contents
1906-Contents	1907-Contents	1908-Contents	1909-Contents	1910-Contents
1911-Contents	1912-Contents	1913-Contents	1914-Contents	1915-Contents

As an example of the information relating to, or including, the Indian Army, the following links are to the 1913 edition:
Officers of the Indian Army on the Supernumerary List transferred to permanent Civil Employment page 675, Indian Army Cavalry page 678, Indian Army Artillery page 692, Indian Army Sappers and Miners page 694, Indian Army Infantry page 696, Goorkha Regiments page 735, Indian Medical Service page 742 Bengal, Madras, Bombay and Rangoon Ecclesiastical Establishments page 754, War Services of the Officers of the Active List page 757. Indian Army Reserve of Officers and Officers on the Unemployed Supernumerary List pages 1218- 1219, War Service of Officers of the Retired List page 1326, Deaths page 1556, Index page 1561