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Forgotten front: Britain, Bolshevism, and Chinese auxiliaries in northern Russia
At the end of the First World War, the British Army enlisted the service of Chinese labourers working in the Arctic.
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Committee of Imperial Defence, Historical Branch and Cabinet Office, Historical Section:...
Catalogue reference: CAB 45
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CAB 45
This series consists of the unregistered correspondence and papers of the Cabinet Office, Historical Section compiled for the published Official War Histories. It includes comments, correspondence, maps, papers, personal accounts, photographs and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CAB 45
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Title (The name of the record)
- Committee of Imperial Defence, Historical Branch and Cabinet Office, Historical Section: Official War Histories Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1904-1957
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of the unregistered correspondence and papers of the Cabinet Office, Historical Section compiled for the published Official War Histories. It includes comments, correspondence, maps, papers, personal accounts, photographs and private war diaries. The series relates mainly to the First World War, although there is one file relating to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological within subject arrangement
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Cabinet Office, Historical Section, 1939-1939
- Committee of Imperial Defence, Historical Branch, 1914-1939
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 291 files and volumes
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1968 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)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3852/
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