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New Annual Army List
:'''Note''': [http://digital.nls.uk/100739612 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.
*Editions from 1840 are available on the [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000534236 HathiTrust Digital Library]. From 1876 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.*Hathi Trust [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 1794-1804] 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.
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