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Treasury: Defence Personnel Division and Defence and Overseas Personnel Division:...

Catalogue reference: T 213

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T 213

Files of the Defence Personnel (DP) Division and Defence and Overseas Personnel Division relating to personnel matters for the Armed Forces and certain Civil Service departments, ministries and offices. The series also includes files of the...

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Reference

T 213

Title
Treasury: Defence Personnel Division and Defence and Overseas Personnel Division: Registered Files (DP, 2-DP and 2-DOP Series)
Date

1867-1970

Description

Files of the Defence Personnel (DP) Division and Defence and Overseas Personnel Division relating to personnel matters for the Armed Forces and certain Civil Service departments, ministries and offices.

The series also includes files of the earlier E file series (T 162), which were re-registered in the DP series in 1948.

Arrangement
Arrangement

Chronological within original subject classification (see Treasury Registration Systems)

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

DP, 2-DP and 2-DOP file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Treasury, Defence and Overseas Personnel Division, 1962-1968
  • Treasury, Defence Personnel Division, 1938-1962
Physical description

1114 file(s)

Restrictions on use

Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

from 1976 Treasury

Accumulation dates

1948

Accruals

Series is accruing

Administrative / biographical background

The Defence Personnel (DP) Division was set up in April 1938. It dealt with: pay, pensions, conditions of service and complementing for the armed forces and the defence and associated departments: Admiralty, Air Ministry, War Office, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Supply, Atomic Energy Authority, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Royal Observatories, Government Chemist, and Office of the Minister of Science;all questions on manning, structure, recruitment and conditions of service for the Armed Forces in consultation with the appropriate Establishment Division;allowances and conditions of service of locally engaged staff and United Kingdom based civilian staff abroad for all government departments, except Foreign Office and Commonwealth Relations Office, and excluding military attaches, specialist service attaches, and trade commissioners, which were dealt with by the Imperial (or Commonwealth) and Foreign Division.

When the Treasury was reorganised in 1962, the DP Division became the Defence and Overseas Personnel (DOP) Division, taking over conditions of service and allowances for all locally engaged staff and civil servants working overseas from Commonwealth and Foreign Division, including some Foreign Office questions.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13950/

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Treasury: Defence Personnel Division and Defence and Overseas Personnel Division: Registered Files (DP, 2-DP and 2-DOP Series)