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Conversations between General Officer Commanding Sudan, and French Commander in Niger-Chad...
Catalogue reference: WO 201/2193
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This record is about the Conversations between General Officer Commanding Sudan, and French Commander in Niger-Chad... dating from 1939 Aug.-Sept. in the series War Office: Middle East Forces; Military Headquarters Papers, Second World War. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- WO 201/2193
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1939 Aug.-Sept.
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Conversations between General Officer Commanding Sudan, and French Commander in Niger-Chad area
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C167468/
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WO 201
War Office: Middle East Forces; Military Headquarters Papers, Second World War
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