# Army List > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Army_List > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Army_List.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_List > Source revision: 1292710229 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|List of British Army officers}} {{No footnotes|date=July 2019}} The '''''Army List''''' is a list (or more accurately seven series of lists) of serving regular, [militia](/source/militia) or territorial [British Army](/source/British_Army) officers, kept in one form or another, since 1702. Manuscript lists of army officers were kept from 1702 to 1752, the first official list being published in 1740. ==Regular army== thumb|Governors and Staff in North America and the West Indies 1778 and 1784 * Annual Army Lists, 1754–1879 (WO 65) * Quarterly Army Lists (First Series), 1879–1922 * Half-Yearly Army Lists, 1923 – February 1950 (from 1947, annual, despite the name) * Modern Army Lists, 1951–ongoing ** Part 1; serving officers. ** Part 2; retired officers, as of 2011 four-yearly ** Part 3; the Gradation List, a short biography of officers, a restricted publication not generally available. == Women == The first woman to appear in a British Army List was [Jane Catherine Shaw Stewart](/source/Jane_Catherine_Shaw_Stewart) when she was appointed to [Netley Hospital](/source/Netley_Hospital) in May 1863.{{Citation |last=Wildman |first=Stuart |title=Stewart, Jane Catherine Shaw (1821–1905), nurse |date=2020-05-14 |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-107344 |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |access-date=2024-01-14 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.107344 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8|url-access=subscription }} ==Other lists== * Monthly Army Lists, 1798 – June 1940. Officers of colonial, militia and territorial units are included. * Quarterly Army Lists (Second Series), July 1940 – December 1950. These superseded the Monthly Army Lists, and, for the remainder of [World War II](/source/World_War_II) were not published but produced as confidential documents, monthly or bi-monthly until December 1943 and quarterly until April 1947, then three times a year, April, August and December. * [Home Guard](/source/British_Home_Guard) List, 1939–1945 * Militia Lists: various militia lists pertaining to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are extant. * ''[Hart's Army List](/source/Hart's_Army_List)'', an unofficial list, produced between 1839 and 1915, containing details of war service which the official lists started covering only in 1881. ==See also== * ''[Crockford's Clerical Directory](/source/Crockford's_Clerical_Directory)'' * [Navy List](/source/Navy_List) ==References== '''Notes''' {{Reflist}} '''Further reading and bibliography'''' * ''The army lists of the [Roundheads](/source/Roundheads) and [Cavaliers](/source/Cavaliers): containing the names of the officers in the Royal and Parliamentary armies of 1642'', [Edward Peacock](/source/Edward_Peacock_(antiquary)) (ed.) (1874) * ''English army lists and commission registers, 1661–1714'', [Charles Dalton](/source/Charles_Dalton) (ed.) (1892–1904) * [Henry George Hart](/source/Henry_George_Hart), ''Hart's army list: the new army list exhibiting the rank, standing, and various services of every officer in the Army on full pay'' (1839–) * William Spencer, ''Army service records of the First World War'' (seventh edition, 2006) ==External links== * [https://books.google.com/books?id=p_BfsBzDzWYC The 1740 Army List] at [Google Books](/source/Google_Books) * [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Collection/Display?iaid=C14273&parentiaid=C543 War Office: Printed Annual Army Lists 1754–1879 (WO 65)]—download for free * Digitised copies of 'Quarterly army lists' from [http://digital.nls.uk/97136046 1913 to 1919] and from [http://digital.nls.uk/97136048 1940 to 1946] at [National Library of Scotland](/source/National_Library_of_Scotland) * Digitised copies of 'Half-yearly army lists' from [http://digital.nls.uk/97136047 1938 to 1941] at National Library of Scotland * [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/british-army-lists.htm British Army Lists] ([National Archives](/source/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom))' Research Guide) * [https://archive.org/details/nlsarmylists Hart's Army List] at the [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive) Category:Directories Category:British Army --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Army List](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_List) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_List?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.