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Series
War Office: West African Command: War Diaries, Second World War
Catalogue reference: WO 173
What's it about?
WO 173
These diaries contain the daily record of events, reports on operations, intelligence summaries, etc, of commanders of headquarters formations and units of the British Army and West African Forces serving in West African Command.No papers of the...
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WO 173
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: West African Command: War Diaries, Second World War
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Date (When the record was created)
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1939-1948
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Description (What the record is about)
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These diaries contain the daily record of events, reports on operations, intelligence summaries, etc, of commanders of headquarters formations and units of the British Army and West African Forces serving in West African Command.
No papers of the Military Headquarters have been traced but a few files of Headquarters Nigeria Area have been included with this series as piece numbers 1282 to 1288.
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.
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Arrangement
The series is arranged by years in the order Headquarters Command, areas and brigades, followed by units of the arms and services, not in any order of precedence.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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1332 file(s)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14380/
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