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served as Secretary of the Army Council. A number of other office holders were members of the Army Council for brief periods including the Director General of the Territorial Army and the Director General of Munitions Production.
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was established to coordinate Army administration. All branches of the Army were directed to be subordinated to the Army Council, which was designated as the "supreme administering body" of the Army.
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Creation of the Army Council was recommended by the War Office (Reconstitution) Committee, and formally appointed by Letters Patent dated 8 February 1904 and by Royal Warrant dated 12 February 1904 (
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The situation was only remedied in 1904 when the post of Commander-in-Chief was abolished and replaced with that of the
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led to the consolidation of all administrative duties in 1855 under the Secretary of State for War, a
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Clark, Andrew (20 February 1904), "The Army Council and Military Medical Administration",
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post. That office was not, however, solely responsible for the Army; the
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Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors
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Former supreme administrative body of the British Army (1904–1964)
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from its creation in 1904 until it was reconstituted as the
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Army Council (disambiguation)

War Office
Army Board
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Whitehall, London
War Office
British Army
Army Board
Crimean War
Cabinet
Commander-in-Chief
Edward Cardwell
Prince George, 2nd Duke of Cambridge
Second Boer War
Chief of the General Staff
Board of Admiralty
Imperial General Staff
Army Board
Secretary of State for War
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War
Financial Secretary to the War Office
Chief of the (Imperial) General Staff
Adjutant-General to the Forces
Quartermaster-General to the Forces
Master-General of the Ordnance
Deputy Chief of the General Staff
Vice-Chief of the Imperial General Staff
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War

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