Despatches from Charles Richard Mackey O'Brien, governor of Barbados, in continuation...

Despatches from Charles Richard Mackey O'Brien, governor of Barbados, in continuation of CO 28/295, as well as letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals during 1919. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from Offices and Individuals (much of which relates to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 28/295 and CO 28/296) is not. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (Government Departments):

• Crown Agents (purchase of surplus war stores, licence for the importation of a dog, Captain O L Hancock's application for War Gratuity);
• Foreign Office (services rendered by US pilot boat Philadelphia to the schooner James William, execution of Robert Neal);
• Home Office (cocaine and opium for Barbados);
• Treasury (pension for J M Lash);
• War Office (service of Lieutenant Leicester Grant Perkins, military stores available for issue to Barbados, appointment of governor as honorary colonel of Barbados Volunteer Force)

Miscellaneous Offices:

• City and West End Properties Limited (financial position of Major W H G Thorne);
• Cumberland & Westmoreland Constabulary (Felix Joseph Campbell [see below]);
• HM Petroluem Executive (fuel oil supply station for Barbados);
• General Post Office (proposed new cables, money orders payable in United States, charges on radiotelegrams sent via the Barbados Wireless Station);
• Ministry of Pensions (pre-war earnings of Major A J de M Martin);
• Ministry of Food (services of E C Jackman);
• Royal Bank of Canada (additional note issue);
• Ministry of Shipping (war risk bonus to certain members of crew of SS Santille, repatriation of J Smith and family);
• Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company Limited (oil tank installation at Barbados);
• The King's Fund for the Disabled (Felix Joseph Campbell);
• Protestant Truth Society (deportation of Pastor Joseph McLaren from St Lucia);
• Empire Institute (request for royal patronage);
• Western Telegraph Company (proposed Para-Barbados cable);
• Western Union Telegraph Company (proposed Barbados-Miami cable);
• College of Preceptors (qualifications of Mr Fitzherbert King)

Individuals:

• Felix Joseph Campbell (letters concerning his unemployment after about 20 years in Scotland and England where he has worked as a miner and seaman, and his request to be repatriated to Barbados with his wife and two children);
• J E A Crawford (application for a cadetship at Sandhurst);
• Lieutenant Colonel F G W Dean (applications for post of surgeon general in Trinidad or British Guiana, as Senior Medical Officer in German East Africa or other senior medical post);
• Hubert Downes (loss of property in Germany and wish to return to Barbados);
• T E Fell (forwarding Lieutenant E K D Hinkson's application for post of inspector of police);
• Captain O L Hancock (appointment as prison governor, training attachment at an English prison);
• Francis Jenkins (accepting appointment as colonial secretary);
• Lieutenant A B R Kaye (application for further employment in the Colonial Service);
• F O Mosley (declining post of assistant superintendent of Agriculture);
• Lieutenant Leicester Grant Perkins (application for transfer to a West African colony);
• H Revell Phillips (enquiry about procedures for his daughter's forthcoming marriage in Barbados);
• A Roebuck (declining post as assistant superintendent of agriculture);
• J K Ramsbottom (declining post as assistant superintendent of agriculture)

Topics

Shipping

International

Labour

Army

Marriage and divorce

Radio and television

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Oil and gas

Pay and pensions

Children

Food and drink

Americas

Communications

Disability

Farming

Medicine

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns

Prisons