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Japanese Instrument of Surrender, 1945
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Series
Welsh Office and predecessors: Civil Defence Registered Files (CD and CDGEN Series)
Catalogue reference: BD 51
What's it about?
BD 51
These files were largely created by the Welsh Board of Health and were transferred to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government in 1951, acting through their Welsh Office. These functions passed to the Welsh Office after 1964 on the...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BD 51
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Title (The name of the record)
- Welsh Office and predecessors: Civil Defence Registered Files (CD and CDGEN Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1949-1970
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Description (What the record is about)
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These files were largely created by the Welsh Board of Health and were transferred to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government in 1951, acting through their Welsh Office. These functions passed to the Welsh Office after 1964 on the appointment of the Secretary of State for Wales, by which time post-war civil defence arrangements were being wound down.
The files relate to the administration of the Civil Defence Act 1948, and deal with procedures and dispersal plans for the evacuation of the civilian population; the care of the homeless; the provision of emergency rest and feeding centres by local authorities, establishment and training of welfare staff and sections in local Civil Defence corps; the appropriation of land and buildings; and arrangements for the evacuation of schools from Merseyside and Birmingham to South Wales; the role of the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) in clothing and food distribution using War Office premises; and a Civil Defence exercise held in Wales.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The majority of files gave a local authority number as used in the Ministry of Health, followed by sub-numbers (e.g. CD1/221/6). A small number of files are in the CD1000 series and three files have the prefix CD Gen.
The files are arranged by former reference in county, county borough, and general file order.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Further material relating to civil defence in Wales can be found in BD 2
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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)
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CD and CDGEN file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Wales Office, 1951-1964
- Welsh Board of Health, 1919-1969
- Welsh Office, 1965-1999
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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75 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2827/
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Welsh Office and predecessors: Civil Defence Registered Files (CD and CDGEN Series)
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