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Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: General Department and successors:...
Catalogue reference: DO 170
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DO 170
This series contains contains files of the General Department. The records concern matters of interest to Commonwealth member states generally, and also particular issues such as war graves, disaster relief and scientific development that were...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- DO 170
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: General Department and successors: Registered Files (GEN Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1953-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains contains files of the General Department. The records concern matters of interest to Commonwealth member states generally, and also particular issues such as war graves, disaster relief and scientific development that were handled by the General Department. Also records gifts made to former colonial territories when they achieved independence.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- GEN file series
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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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- Commonwealth Relations Office, General and Migration Depaartment, 1966-1968
- Commonwealth Relations Office, General Department, 1947-1962
- Commonwealth Relations Office, Nationality and General Department, 1962-1965
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 128 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6179/
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