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Colonial Office: Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees Department
Catalogue reference: CO 980
What's it about?
CO 980
This series contains files of the Prisoners of War, Civilian Internees and Casualties Department. A large part of this collection of papers concerns civilian internees detained when Singapore and Hong Kong were invaded by the Japanese. There are...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CO 980
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees Department
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Date (When the record was created)
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1941-1953
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files of the Prisoners of War, Civilian Internees and Casualties Department. A large part of this collection of papers concerns civilian internees detained when Singapore and Hong Kong were invaded by the Japanese. There are also files on military prisoners of war in Europe and the Far East; on conditions in prisoner of war and internee camps; and on aliens interned in British Colonial territories.
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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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240 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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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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For registers to this correspondence see CO 1012
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5169/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: CO
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