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Prisoners of War Department, including: Exact reasons why the Central Prisoners of...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/545
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- FO 383/545
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1919
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoners of War Department, including:
Exact reasons why the Central Prisoners of War Committee was established in place of the Prisoners of War Help Committee.
Establishment of the Central Prisoners of War Committee.
The Prisoners of War Reception Committee (of the Central Prisoners of War Committee).
Terms of reference of the Inter-departmental Committee on prisoners.
Departments concerned with prisoners of war.
Report on Prisoners of War Department.
War Cabinet memorandum K61 on demobilisation.
Transfer of Mr H B Warner to the Foreign Office.
Memorandum drafted in pursuance of instructions of War Cabinet minute of 30 November 1918, K61.
Proposed report on the machinery of the Government Committee.
Memorandum on the functions of the Prisoners of War Department.
Disposal of records accumulated, with an instruction from the Public Record Office on the disposal of documents under the Public Record Office Acts.
Report of the work of the Prisoners of War Department.
Disposal of records of the Prisoners of War Department: control to be assumed by the Foreign Office.
Demobilisation of the Prisoners of War Department.
Report on the work of the department in connection with prisoners of war from August 1914 to January 1919.
Memorandum by Mr H B Warner on the machinery for dealing with prisoners of war questions.
Report by the Ministry of Shipping on the repatriation of British prisoners of war.
Statement showing the number of prisoners of war and civilians up to 22 January 1919 when the service was practically completed.
Dissolution of the Prisoners of War Department.
Code 1250 Files 993-1864 (to paper 6730).
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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)
- Files 993-1864 (to pp.6730).
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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FO 383
Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from...
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