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Report on the British Indian Army, 1943
This Second World War War Office document assessed the British Indian Army's battle readiness and made recommendations for its development.
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Ministry of Defence and predecessors: Defence Signal Board and predecessors: Minutes...
Catalogue reference: DEFE 59
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DEFE 59
This series consists of minutes and papers of the Defence Signal Board and its predecessors relating to various aspects of wireless telegraphy and electronic communications in the military context.The files were re-jacketed into D/Pol (ICS) files...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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DEFE 59
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Defence and predecessors: Defence Signal Board and predecessors: Minutes and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1917-1986
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of minutes and papers of the Defence Signal Board and its predecessors relating to various aspects of wireless telegraphy and electronic communications in the military context.
The files were re-jacketed into D/Pol (ICS) files in 1999 and original references confused or obliterated.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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D/Pol ICS
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- British Joint Communications Board, 1942-1946
- Joint Naval and Military Wireless/Telegraphy Committee, 1917-1918
- Ministry of Defence, British Joint Communications Board, 1946-1951
- Ministry of Defence, British Joint Communications Electronics Board, 1951-1964
- Ministry of Defence, Defence Signal Board, 1964-1983
- Wireless Telegraphy Board, 1918-1942
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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31 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Ministry of Defence
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Later papers up to 1994 have been put back for review.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Joint Naval and Military Wireless/Telegraphy Committee was set up as an interdepartmental committee in 1917 to: 1. represent interests of the 3 Services in relation to wireless and telegraphy;2. co-ordinate use of air waves, power and standardisation of equipment;3. sharing research between the Services.
The committee changed its name to the Wireless Telegraphy Board (and was attached to the Signal Division of the Naval Staff) in 1918, the British Joint Communications Board in 1942, the British Joint Communications Electronics Board in 1951, the Defence Signal Board in 1964 and the Defence Command and Control Communications and Information Systems Board in 1983.
From 1918 the board provided advice to each of the 3 service boards and from 1946 to the newly created Chiefs of Staff Committee of the Ministry of Defence. Defence Signals Staff provided the secretariat to the Defence Signal Board.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15205/
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