Government departments had fewer staff but more work during World War I, and civil servants were located in departments outside of Whitehall as well. The document lists various government departments and record collections that show how civil servants and records were dispersed during the war years from 1916-1918. It provides citations and references to help locate relevant records from this period.

1. Audrey Collins
11 November 2014
Civil Servants and the First World War
Government departments on a war footing

2. Civil Servants and the First World War
•Government departments had…
•fewer staff
•more work
•and they were not all in Whitehall

4. Imperial Calendar

5. Imperial Calendar
General Register Office staff 1916

6. Supreme Court Staff Book 1841-1935
J 86/447

7. Board of Trade 1917
BT 13/77/2

8. STAT 12/12/12
HM Stationery Office

9. Government Forms Depot, Salford
STAT 20/290

10. HO 45/10731/255893
Home Office

11. Middlesex military service appeal
tribunal 1916-1918
MH 47/12/2 Horace Cecil Gates

13. ED 23/647
ctoria and Albert Museum

14. Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues
F 10/458 Temporary War Bonuses

15. Ramsgate Harbour staff
MT 10/2014/16

16. Recommendations for British Empire Medal (transport)
MT 6/2491/3

17. Discovery – our online catalogue

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