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Series
Committee of Imperial Defence: Miscellaneous Correspondence and Memoranda
Catalogue reference: CAB 17
What's it about?
CAB 17
This series consists of miscellaneous correspondence and papers accumulated by the Secretariat of the Committee of Imperial Defence concerning various matters dealt with by the Committee, and by its principal Sub-committees, during the period...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CAB 17
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Title (The name of the record)
- Committee of Imperial Defence: Miscellaneous Correspondence and Memoranda
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Date (When the record was created)
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1902-1919
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of miscellaneous correspondence and papers accumulated by the Secretariat of the Committee of Imperial Defence concerning various matters dealt with by the Committee, and by its principal Sub-committees, during the period 1902-1918. There are also a few miscellaneous papers of the War Council, Dardenelles Committee and War Committee after 1916. Additionally, the series includes papers prepared for the Colonial and Imperial conferences of 1907 and 1909.
Topics covered include: army and naval matters of home and colonial defence and those pertaining to the defence of India; issues dealt with by the Air Board; foreign relations and alliances; press, cable and wireless censorship; the treatment of enemy ships in time of war; Mesopotamia, policy in the Middle East and memoranda on imperial co-operation by L S Amery.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological by subject
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Related material may be found among the records in: CAB 22
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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- Cabinet, Dardanelles Committee, 1915-1915
- War Committee, 1915-1916
- War Council, 1914-1915
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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201 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 unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1982 Cabinet Office
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No future accruals expected
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3824/
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Committee of Imperial Defence: Miscellaneous Correspondence and Memoranda
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