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Catalogue reference: HW 71
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HW 71
This series consists of telegrams originating in Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) during the Second World War and quoted by Churchill in his history of the War, which were edited prior to publication by Monty Davenport of the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HW 71
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Title (The name of the record)
- Government Code and Cypher School and Government Communications Headquarters: London Communications Security Agency and predecessors: Comsec Editing of Winston Churchill's 'The Second World War'
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Date (When the record was created)
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1944-1954
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of telegrams originating in Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) during the Second World War and quoted by Churchill in his history of the War, which were edited prior to publication by Monty Davenport of the Communications Electronic Security Department to protect the original British cypher in which they had been encoded.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The telegrams are in original date order, with both the original unedited version and the final published version.
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Government Code and Cypher School, 1919-1946
- Government Communications Headquarters, Communications-Electronic Security Group, L Division, 1946-1969
- London Communications Security Agency, 1954-1965
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 2004 Government Communications Headquarters
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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 not accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16244/
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Government Code and Cypher School and Government Communications Headquarters: London Communications Security Agency and predecessors: Comsec Editing of Winston Churchill's 'The Second World War'
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