Department of Civil Demobilisation and Resettlement. DR DRA DRAX DRAY DRF

The DR file series deal with policy questions and contain some of the papers of the Labour Resettlement Committee. There are memoranda on such subjects as industrial transition, position of disabled soldiers in industry, and the emigration of women.

The DRA, DRAX, and DRAY files deal with the work of the Appointments Department while it was part of the Department of Civil Demobilisation and Resettlement.

The DRF files are concerned with finance.

For related DRAX files see LAB 2/1521: LAB 2/1521

For related DRA files see LAB 2/1514-1519: LAB 2/1514

An account of the workings of the Department of Civil Demobilisation and Resettlement is in LAB 2/454 T.495: LAB 2/454/T495/1918

For finance files related to DRF files see also F.AD, LAB 7/112: LAB 7/112

Most related papers dealing with training are in the T and related series, LAB 7/240-242 and 277-283:

(LAB 7/277-281):

For related DRAY files see LAB 2/1500-1502: LAB 2/1500

(LAB 7/240-242):

(LAB 7/282-283):

For files of the Appointments Department see AD LAB 7/1: LAB 7/1

The Department of Civil Demobilisation and Resettlement was established in November 1918, to deal with the problems of demobilisation and the training and absorption into civilian life of discharged officers and men. It was formed from the Labour Supply Department of the Ministry of Munitions and controlled the Employment Department and the Appointments Department of the Ministry of Labour. It came to an end in June 1919. The Ministry of Labour was advised by the Labour Resettlement Committee appointed in March 1918.

The training section of the Department of Civil Demobilisation and Resettlement became a separate department early in 1919.