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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War Office

This included persuading the War Office of the benefits of using sphagnum moss for wound dressings.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025

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

Opening at a time of war in Europe, the OWO — as the Old War Office has been delicately rebranded — is an evocative reminder of Britain’s wartime history.

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