The following record offices were formed on mobilisation in August 1914. In at least one case (Lichfield), an appeal went out for clerks who were members of the National Reserve.
Exeter
Located on Goldsmith Street
Handled records for the following TF Associations: Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Southampton, Wiltshire
Hamilton
Handled records for the following TF Associations: Ayr, Berwick (except Berwick-on-Tweed), Dumfries, City of Edinburgh, City of Glasgow, Haddington, Kirkcudbright, Lanark, Linlithgow, Midlothian, Peebles, Roxburgh, Selkirk, Wigtown
Hounslow
Initially located at “Heatherly” on Bath Road, this office moved to Hollygrove House on Staines Road in April 1916
Handled records for the following TF Associations: Kent, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex
Lichfield
Handled records for the following TF Associations: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Staffordshire
The “Staffordshire Advertiser” of 2 January 1915 provided good details of the location of the Army Pay Office in Lichfield, at least in the early part of the war. It had occupied a small premises on the corner of Gaia Lane and Beacon Street, and was expanding into “Nether Beacon” on Beacon Hill and also the more commodious “Beacon Place” (site now Swinfen Broun Road). A house adjoining the Guildhall had also been taken over as a record office for the Territorial Force units of Number 6 District (which covered these TF Associations).
London
Handled records for the following TF Associations: London, City of London
Located at 4 London Wall Buildings, London EC from November 1914 onwards
Perth
Located at 36 Tay Street
Handled records for the following TF Associations: Aberdeenshire, City of Aberdeen, Argyll, Banff, Bute, Caithness, Clackmannan, Dumbarton, City of Dundee, Ekgin, Fife, Forfar, Inverness, Kincardine, Kinross, Nairn, Orkney, Perth, Renfrew, Ross and Cromarty, Stirling, Sutherland, Zetland
Preston
Located on Lancaster Road
Handled records for the following TF Associations: Cumberland, Lancashire, Westmorland
Shrewsbury
Handled records for the following TF Associations: Anglesey, Brecknock, Cardigan, Carmarthen, Chester, Denbigh, Flint, Glamorgan, Herefordshire, Merioneth, Monmouthshire, Montgomery, Pembroke, Radnorshire, Shropshire
Warley (Essex)
Handled records for the following TF Associations: Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk
Warwick
Handled records for the following TF Associations: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire
York
Handled records for the following TF Associations: Durham, Northumberland (including Berwick-on-Tweed), Yorkshire (all three Ridings)
Note: two companies of the Lancashire and Cheshire Royal Garrison Artillery administered by the Chester TF Association were handled by the Preston Record Office.
Links
The Territorial Force Associations
Regimental Districts and Record Offices
Sources
The Army List with my corrections and additions based on newspaper information.