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Committee of Imperial Defence: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Minutes and Memoranda
Catalogue reference: CAB 53
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CAB 53
This series consists of the minutes and memoranda of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (including some memoranda of the Joint Planning Committee and of the Joint Intelligence Sub-committee) and one volume of papers of the Sub-Committee on Seaborne...
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CAB 53
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Title (The name of the record)
- Committee of Imperial Defence: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Minutes and Memoranda
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Date (When the record was created)
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1923-1939
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of the minutes and memoranda of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (including some memoranda of the Joint Planning Committee and of the Joint Intelligence Sub-committee) and one volume of papers of the Sub-Committee on Seaborne Land Attack on the British Isles dated 1930.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For further records see War Office, CAB 79 CAB 80 CAB 81
Minutes and memoranda of the Chiefs of Staff Committee after 1 Sept 1939 can be found in:
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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)
- Committee of Imperial Defence, Chiefs of Staff Committee, 1923-1939
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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55 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Available in digital format unless otherwise stated
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No future accruals expected
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Chiefs of Staff (COS) Committee was established by the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1923 following the recommendations of the Salisbury Committee on National and Imperial Defence, and approval by the Cabinet in November 1923.
The function of the COS Committee was to keep the defence situation under review, to ensure the co-ordination of defence preparations, and to advise the CID on questions of sea, land and air policy, as well as on defence policy as a whole.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Salisbury Committee on National and Imperial Defence, (Cmnd 2029) 1924
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3860/
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Committee of Imperial Defence: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Minutes and Memoranda
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