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Committee on Detention Barracks (Oliver Committee): Memoranda, Minutes and Report
Catalogue reference: WO 226
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WO 226
The series contains statements from ex-prisoners and other interested parties, oral statements from witnesses, transcripts of proceedings, press-cuttings, Army and Navy material on the administration of military detention barracks, and the report...
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- WO 226
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- Committee on Detention Barracks (Oliver Committee): Memoranda, Minutes and Report
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1912-1943
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The series contains statements from ex-prisoners and other interested parties, oral statements from witnesses, transcripts of proceedings, press-cuttings, Army and Navy material on the administration of military detention barracks, and the report of the Committee.
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See also Records of the Judge Advocate General
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- War Office, Committee on Detention Barracks, 1943-1943
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- 12 file(s)
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Following widespread criticism in the press over conditions in detention barracks, a committee was set up in 1943 by the Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, "to enquire into and report on the treatment of men under sentence in Naval and Military Detention Barracks in the United Kingdom." The chairman was Sir Roland Oliver, MC, KC.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14432/
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