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Despatches (1915 Nov-Dec); Offices and Individuals (1915). Despatches are described...
Catalogue reference: CO 28/287
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This record is about the Despatches (1915 Nov-Dec); Offices and Individuals (1915). Despatches are described... dating from 1915 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Barbados, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 28/287
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- 1915
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Despatches (1915 Nov-Dec); Offices and Individuals (1915). Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from offices and individuals is not. Letters from various government bodies, departments and individuals the majority of which relate to despatches sent by the Governor of Barbados in this volume and in CO 28/285 and CO 28/286. Offices: Admiralty, Colonial Agents, Foreign Office, Board of Trade, War Office, Commission of Sugar, Post Office and War Trade Department . Individuals: Gillespie Bro and Co, Fitz Herbert Inniss, J Niel, R. Rutherford for Wilkinson and Gaviller, Hilda Sealy and Mabel E. Smith.
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