Army Records Society


The Army Records Society is a text publication society for the history of the British Army. The society was established in 1984 and is a registered charity. To date the society has issued 42 volumes of material.

Selected publications

18th Century volumes

An Eighteenth-Century Secretary at War: The Papers of William, Viscount Barrington vol. 4 Colonel Samuel Bagshawe and the Army of King George II, 1731-1762 vol. 6 John Peebles’ American War, 1776-1782 vol. 13 The Journal of Corporal William Todd, 1745-1762 vol. 18 Amherst and the Conquest of Canada vol. 20 The Duke of Cumberland's Campaigns in Britain and the Low Countries, 1745-1748: A Selection of His Letters vol. 38

19th Century volumes

The Napoleonic War Journal of Captain Thomas Henry Browne, 1807-1816 vol. 3 Roberts in India: The Military Papers of Field Marshal Lord Roberts, 1876-1893 vol. 9 Lord Chelmsford’s Zululand Campaign, 1878-1879 vol. 10 Letters of a Victorian Army Officer: Edward Wellesley, 1840-1854 vol. 11 The Maratha War Papers of Arthur Wellesley, January to December 1803 vol. 14 Sir Hugh Rose and the Central India Campaign, 1858 vol. 16 At Wellington’s Right Hand: The Letters of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, 1808-1815 vol. 21 Romaine’s Crimean War: The Letters and Journal of William Govett Romaine 1854-6 vol. 24 Wolseley and Ashanti: The Asante War Journal and Correspondence of Major General Sir Garnet Wolseley 1873-1874 vol. 28 Crimean Cavalry Letters vol. 31 The Military Papers of Field Marshal Sir George White, 1885-1900: Upper Burma, India and South Africa vol. 43

20th Century volumes

The Military Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, 1918-1922 vol. 1 The Army and the Curragh Incident, 1914 vol. 2 The Military Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, December 1915-February 1918 vol. 5 Montgomery and the Eighth Army: A Selection from the Diaries, Correspondence and other Papers of Field Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein vol. 7 The British Army and Signals Intelligence during the First World War vol. 8 The Letters of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles à Court Repington CMG, Military Correspondent of The Times, 1903-1918 vol. 15 Lord Roberts and the War in South Africa, 1899-1902 vol. 17 Rawlinson in India vol. 19 Allenby in Palestine vol. 22 Lord Kitchener and the War in South Africa, 1899-1902 vol. 25 Major General Oliver Nugent and the Ulster Division, 1915-1918 vol. 26 Montgomery and the Battle of Normandy vol. 27 The First World War Letters of General Lord Horne vol. 29 The Military Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam, 1910-1942 vol. 30 The Military Papers of Lieutenant-General Frederick Stanley Maude, 1914-1917 vol. 32 The Kenya Papers of General Sir George Erskine 1953-1955 vol. 33 Military Intelligence from Germany 1906-1914 vol. 34 The Diary of Corporal Vince Schürhoff 1914-1918 vol. 35 Liaison: General Pierre des Vallières at British General Headquarters, January 1916 to May 1917 vol. 36 The Military Papers and Correspondence of Major-General J. F. C. Fuller, 1916-1933 vol. 37 Lord Gorell and the Army Education Corps 1918-1920 vol. 39 The Military Papers of Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, Volume 1: 1940-42 vol. 40 The First World War Diary of Noël Drury, 6th Royal Dublin Fusiliers: Gallipoli, Salonika, the Middle East and the Western Front vol. 41 The Military Papers and Correspondence of Major General Guy Dawnay, 1915-1919 vol. 42

Miscellaneous

Military Miscellany I: Manuscripts from the Seven Years' War, the First and Second Sikh Wars, and the First World War vol. 12
  • * George Durant’s Journal of the Expedition to Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1758-1759
  • * Daniel Robinson: Letters from India, 1845-1849
  • * The Reverend George Duncan at GHQ, 1916-1918 Military Miscellany II: Manuscripts from Marlborough's Wars, the American War of Independence, and the Boer War vol. 23
  • * The Journal of Sergeant John Wilson, 1694-1727
  • * Captain the Hon William Leslie, His Life, Letters and Commemoration
  • * ''Diary of Private Robert Cross, 1899-1901''