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SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' FAMILIES ASSOCIATION


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4014

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' FAMILIES ASSOCIATION

Date(s): 1914-1916

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.07 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Association was founded in 1885 and was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1926. The objects were to look after the welfare of families of servicemen and women, to help them obtain assistance, to act as friendly advisers of service families and to represent the cause of families to appropriate Government departments.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Memorial Book produced by the local branch of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association, listing by parish men from Uxbridge serving during the First World War. Indicates whether killed in action or families helped by SSFA. Pamphlets on SSFA bound at back.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One item.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased at auction in June 1997.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Support groups | Groups
War memorials | Monuments | Architecture
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Military personnel x Armed forces
Family
Military organizations

Personal names

Corporate names
Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association

Places
Uxbridge | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Hillingdon