Record revealed
Japanese Instrument of Surrender, 1945
After six years of brutal global conflict, this document marked the end of the Second World War.
Series
War Office: British Expeditionary Force, France: War Diaries, Second World War
Catalogue reference: WO 167
What's it about?
WO 167
This series consists of daily records of events, reports on operations, intelligence summaries, etc, of formation or headquarters, divisional, regimental and other unit commanders of the British Expeditionary Force in France from September 1939...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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WO 167
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: British Expeditionary Force, France: War Diaries, Second World War
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Date (When the record was created)
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1939-1940
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of daily records of events, reports on operations, intelligence summaries, etc, of formation or headquarters, divisional, regimental and other unit commanders of the British Expeditionary Force in France from September 1939 to June 1940.
Public access to this series was previously restricted in that readers were required to sign an undertaking note not to disclose information of a personal nature. As from 1995, all pieces in this series are no longer subject to this undertaking and are open without restriction.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The order of arrangement is:
- i) General headquarters, lines of communication, corps, divisions and brigades.
- ii) Units of the Royal Armoured Corps, Royal Artillery, Infantry, Royal Engineers, etc.
- iii) Units of Commonwealth troops and special forces
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1447 file(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14374/
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