War Office

British  

noun

1. 1. the department of state responsible for the British Army, now part of the Ministry of Defence

   2. the premises of this department in Whitehall, London

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Example Sentences

In fact, documents concerning an essential mission, dubbed Operation Postmaster and undertaken by the British War Office, were only recently declassified.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024

Instead, Mr. Walsh recalls the famous figures who worked in the Old War Office, from Winston Churchill to T.E.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2022

Yet just across Whitehall, a billionaire property developer is close to completing an extravagant conversion of the Old War Office, an Edwardian-era monument to Britain’s imperial past.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2022

One obstacle when researching first world war records is that more than half were destroyed in the second world war, when German bombers struck the War Office repository in London.

From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2019

During the 1740s the British War Office and Parliament commissioned two companies of colonial rangers and authorized more than a hundred men to serve in the Highland Rangers in Georgia.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz