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Colonial Office: Niger and West Africa Frontier Force and West Africa Frontier Force...
Catalogue reference: CO 445
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CO 445
This series contains original correspondence relating to the Niger and West Africa Frontier Force to 1899, the West Africa Frontier Force from 1900, and the Royal West Africa Frontier Force from 1918.
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CO 445
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: Niger and West Africa Frontier Force and West Africa Frontier Force Original Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1898-1926
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains original correspondence relating to the Niger and West Africa Frontier Force to 1899, the West Africa Frontier Force from 1900, and the Royal West Africa Frontier Force from 1918.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Bound volumes arranged chronologically within the following subject headings: Despatches (letters of the governors), Offices (letters of government departments and other organisations) and Individuals (arranged alphabetically), and with Despatches divided according to West African colony. Each volume with a contents list. Part of the correspondence for 1926 is arranged in subject files.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later correspondence see CO 820
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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69 volume(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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- Topics
- International
- Africa
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For a register of correspondence, 1898-1899, see CO 581 For a register of correspondence, 1900-1926, see CO 641
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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 Niger and West Africa Frontier Force, known from 1900 as the West Africa Frontier Force and from 1918 as the Royal West Africa Frontier Force, was raised locally in 1897 to protect the frontiers of the British protectorates in West Africa against the French. It was paid by the imperial government, and officered by the British Army. From 1927 the administration of the unit was brought together with that of the King's African Rifles in a new Military Branch within the Colonial Office. Papers relating to the two forces were then registered and kept together.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4635/
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