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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: Ministry of Defence Headquarters and Joint Service Command:...
Catalogue reference: DEFE 73
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DEFE 73
This series contains a selection from a range of internally disseminated instructions, regulations, notices and guidance for Service and civilian personnel, those working in the Ministry of Defence and its agencies and also those in Service...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- DEFE 73
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Defence: Ministry of Defence Headquarters and Joint Service Command: Publications
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1962-2000
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains a selection from a range of internally disseminated instructions, regulations, notices and guidance for Service and civilian personnel, those working in the Ministry of Defence and its agencies and also those in Service Commands and establishments.
- MOD Manuals: administrative guidance and regulations issued to staff in MOD Headquarters
- Joint Service Publications (JSP): a series of instructional and regulatory guidance superseding both MOD Manuals and numerous single-Service publications and covering a wide variety of subjects, both administrative and technical
- Defence Council Instructions (DCI) Civilian: applicable to MOD civilian units and staff
- DCI Joint Service: applicable to units and personnel of all three Services
- DCI General: applicable to units and personnel both civilian and Service
- MOD Personnel Instructions: in 1996 these replaced Defence Council Instructions Civilian and Civilian Management Circulars
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Ministry of Aviation Publications AVIA 70
Army Council Instructions WO 293
War Office Confidential Print WO 279
Civilian Staff Orders and Office Instructions WO 381
Defence Council Instructions (Royal Navy) DEFE 45
Admiralty Publications ADM 186
Defence Council Instructions (Army) DEFE 46
Defence Council Instructions (Royal Air Force)
War Office Memoranda WO 33
Air Publications (Naval) ADM 264
Air Publications AIR 10
Admiralty Fleet Orders ADM 182
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Joint Warfare Establishment, 1963-1963
- Ministry of Defence, Defence Council, 1964-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 114 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2004 Ministry of Defence
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
- A Defence Council Instruction (DCI) or present day Defence Instruction Notice(DIN) is an official document that tells people in the Services or MOD aboutimportant instructions, guidance or other information that they need to know todo their job properly, or might want to know to do their job better' Under thepost 1964 system DCIs were issued separately for each service but were alldivided into parts as below . Part I Administrative and General . Part IIService Personnel . Part III Training and Operational . Part IV Stores,Equipment and Servicing . Part IV Stores, Equipment and Servicing . Part VBooks, Stationery and Correspondence . Part VI Civilian Personnel . Part VIIConfidential . Part VIII Miscellaneous This series concentrated on thoseinstructions that were directed at Joint Service Command or for CivilianMatters
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16139/
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