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Phone
  
+33 2 33 92 65 07

Defence Historical Service

Address
  
57 Rue de l'Abbaye, 50100 Cherbourg-Octeville, France

Hours
  
Closed today SundayClosedMonday1–5PMTuesday9AM–5PMWednesday9AM–5PMThursday9AM–5PMFriday9AM–4PMSaturday9:30AM–3PM

Profiles

In France, the Defence Historical Service (Service historique de la défense or SHD) is the archives centre of Ministry of Defence and its armed forces. It was set up by decree in 2005.

The SHD consists of the "Centre historique des archives" at Vincennes, the "Centre des archives de l’armement et du personnel" at Châtellerault and a number of smaller repositories. In total the archives contain about 300 km of records of which 100 km are at Vincennes and 70 km at Châtellerault.

References

Defence Historical Service Wikipedia