Summary information
Study title
Career Mobility in Two British Regiments, 1679- 1934; Scots Guard Officers Corps
Creator
Tepperman, L., University of Toronto, Department of Sociology
Study number / PID
366 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-366-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The aim of this project is to study the structure of careers within the Officer Corps in the period 1674 - 1934. Data are drawn from a history of the Coldstream Guards that includes 796 individuals. A second regiment, the Scots Guard Officers Corps was similarly examined. It comprised 1950 individual careers.Main Topics:
Variables
Year entered continuous service in Guard, year left continuous service in Guard, highest rank attained. Saw action, wounded in action, killed in action.
Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
Not availableCountry
Great Britain
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Individuals
Groups
National
Army officers
Universe
All members of the officer corps of the Coldstream Guard and the Scots Guard
Sampling procedure
No sampling (total universe)
Kind of data
Numeric
Data collection mode
Compilation of published sources
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1978
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Related publications
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