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Series
Colonial Office: Military: Register of Correspondence
Catalogue reference: CO 871
What's it about?
CO 871
This series contains registers of correspondence on military issues.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CO 871
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: Military: Register of Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1910-1952
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registers of correspondence on military issues.
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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)
- Colonial Office, 1854-1966
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 35 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Foreign and Commonwealth 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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- Topics
- International
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
- The volumes in this series were created by the Office of the Chief Clerk,Registry, which was responsible for the registering of incoming correspondence.The Office of the Chief Clerk was part of the General Department of theColonial Office.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5060/
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