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1st/4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, First World War Archive. Documents from file containing Receipted Bills, etc, France and Belgium, 1916-1919.

From Major N E Barnes, 4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.

Documents relating to financial management, accounts etc

ko1181/198-01	Memo, dated 31 Jul 198, Clearing House, Number 1403, re loses of Public Money
ko1181/198-02	Memo, dated 24 Mar 1917, Clearing House, Number 1811a re Acquittance Rolls
ko1181/198-03	Routine Orders by Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston, Commanding VIII Corps, number 103, dated 9 Dec 1916. Including: 574 Short Weight of Trucks 575 Medical Inspection (feet, hands and body, trench foot etc)
ko1181/198-04	Memo, dated 24 Jun 1917, from 55th Division re money from sale of dripping. 10 francs allowed to the 1st/4th King’s Own. All other units of the Division are shown. The largest payment of 59 Francs was to the 1st/5th South Lancashire Regiment. The 1st/5th King’s Own received 19 Francs.
ko1181/198-05	General Routine Orders, Adjutant General’s Branch, dated 31 Jan 1917, re Loss of Public Money and officers going in to Action.
ko1181/198-06	General Routine Orders, Number 1911, Losses of Public Money – Regulations to guard against, and procedure in case of. 2 Nov 1916.
ko1181/198-07	Messing Arrangements in the Line.
ko1181/198-08	Imprest Account, Notes for the Guidance of Holders of Imprest Accounts serving with the BEF in France.
ko1181/198-09	Memo, dated 16 Oct 1917, from Staff Paymaster, Clearing House, Base, to The Adjutant 1st/4th King’s Own re change of Imprest Holder. From Major P E Robathan to 2nd Lieutenant A S Latham.
ko1181/198-10	Letter, dated 8 Nov 1917, from Lieutenant Colonel, Staff Paymaster, Clearing House, Base, France, to Officer Commanding 1st/4th King’s Own re memo of 16 Oct 1917. Re change of imprest account holder. Suggestion of missing cash, ‘public cash inadvertently taken to England’ etc. “The junior officers of the Army Pay Department are gentlemen of considerable business experience who have volunteered their services for the period of the War and have merely been given temporary rank whilst serving with the Forces overseas to meet military requirements. They are not as you appear to think young Army Officers. The signature to which you take exception is that of a Bank Inspector in civil life.”
ko1181/198-11	General Routine Order Number 1911, dated 2 Nov 1916. ‘Losses of Public Money – Regulations to Guard Against.’
ko1181/198-12	Copy of General Routine Order Number 1912, dated 2 Nov 1916, ‘Imprest Holders’.
ko1181/198-13	Imprest Account. Notes for the Guidance of Holders of Imprest Accounts serving with the BEF in France.
ko1181/198-14	Letter from B B Cubitt, War Office, London, 12 Mar 1919, to Territorial Force Associations etc. Re Army Order 13 of 1919 on TF units.
ko1181/198-15	Official Instruction: “How to Pay a Company in the Field” For the Use of Officers of the Regular Army and Territorial Force, 1915.
ko1181/198-16	Official Instruction: “How to Pay a Company in the Field” For the Use of Officers of the Regular Army and Territorial Force, 1915.
ko1181/198-17	Extracts from General Routine Orders, 26 Apr 1917, Number 2272, Furlough Advances, Army Form W 3448. 5 Aug 1917, Number 2497, Cash Payments to Soldiers Proceeding on Leave or to courses of instruction etc.
ko1181/198-18	General Routine Order Number 2086, 31 Jan 1917. Cash payments to Soldiers Proceeding on Leave.
ko1181/198-19	General Routine Order Number 2086, 31 Jan 1917. Cash payments to Soldiers Proceeding on Leave. Initialled by Company Commanders, 1st/4th King’s Own.
ko1181/198-20	Extracts from General Routine Orders, 26 Apr 1917, Number 2272, Furlough Advances, Army Form W 3448. 5 Aug 1917, Number 2497, Cash Payments to Soldiers Proceeding on Leave or to courses of instruction etc. Initialled by Company Commanders, 1st/4th King’s Own.
ko1181/198-21	Memo to Officer Commanding 1st/4th King’s Own. Re Imprest Account. page 1 of 3
ko1181/198-22	Memo to Officer Commanding 1st/4th King’s Own. Re Imprest Account. page 2 of 3
ko1181/198-23	Memo to Officer Commanding 1st/4th King’s Own. Re Imprest Account. page 3 of 3
ko1181/198-24	General Routine Order Number 2086, 31 Jan 1917. Cash Payments to Soldiers Proceeding on Leave.
ko1181/198-25	Army Form N 1531A Monthly Account Form, Imprest Account, for use in the field. Completed example, Apr 1917.
ko1181/198-26	Clearing House Form Number 62, dated 27 Mar 1917, re Instructions to Imprest Account Holders.
ko1181/198-27	Clearing House form Number 66, dated 1917, re Imprest Account and Army Form N 1531A
ko1181/198-28	Clearing House Form Number 146, dated 1917, re Imprest Account
ko1181/198-29	Clearing House Form Number 147, re Remittances.
ko1181/198-30	Clearing House Form Number 149 dated 1917 re charges for Haircutting.
ko1181/198-31	Clearing House Form Number 151 dated 1917 re Imprest Account.
ko1181/198-32	General Routine Order Number 1911, dated 2 Nov 1916 ‘Losses of Public Money – Regulations to Guard Against, and Procedure in case of’
ko1181/198-33	Copy of General Routine Order number 1912, dated 2 Nov 1916. Imprest Holders
ko1181/198-34	Copy of General Routine Order number 1913, dated 2 Nov 1916. Acquittance Rolls.
ko1181/198-35	Clearing House Form Number 166, General Routine Order No 1410 dated 15 Feb 1916. Re Haircutting and Washing – British Troops.
ko1181/198-36	Memo to Paymaster, I/C Clearing House Base, re handover of Imprest Account to 2nd Lieutenant A J Thorpe, from Major Robathan, 1st/4th King’s Own.

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