Series
Air Ministry: Reserve Command, later Home Command: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: AIR 53
What's it about?
AIR 53
Administrative instructions, organization memoranda, and related papers of RAF Reserve (later Home) Command, including Flying Training Command.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- AIR 53
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Title (The name of the record)
- Air Ministry: Reserve Command, later Home Command: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1946-1958
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Description (What the record is about)
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Administrative instructions, organization memoranda, and related papers of RAF Reserve (later Home) Command, including Flying Training Command.
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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)
- HC and other file series
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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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- Air Ministry, Home Command, 1950-1959
- Air Ministry, Reserve Command, 1939-1940
- Air Ministry, Reserve Command, 1946-1950
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 17 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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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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RAF Reserve (later Home) Command was formed on 1 February 1939 and disbanded on 27 May 1940. It was re-formed on 20 May 1946, with Headquarters at RAF White Waltham, Maidenhead, Berkshire, and was re-named Home Command during August 1950. Its principal task was to train and maintain the pre-service units for which the RAF was responsible - the University Air Squadrons, RAF sections of the Combined Cadet Forces at schools, and the Air Training Corps. It was also responsible for RAF Recruiting Centres throughout the UK and for the administration of many other RAF units - hospitals, the Staff College and the Record Office, movement and police units. Home Command was disbanded on 31 March 1959.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2108/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: AIR
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Air Ministry: Reserve Command, later Home Command: Registered Files