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Series
Commonwealth Office: Defence Department: Registered Files (DD Series)
Catalogue reference: FCO 16
What's it about?
FCO 16
The records in this series are of the Commonwealth Office's Defence Department and deal with general defence questions relating to the Commonwealth generally, and to particular territories and regions.
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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FCO 16
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Office: Defence Department: Registered Files (DD Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1966-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records in this series are of the Commonwealth Office's Defence Department and deal with general defence questions relating to the Commonwealth generally, and to particular territories and regions.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By former file reference
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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)
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DD file series
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Commonwealth Office, Defence Department, 1966-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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253 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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1999 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)
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No further accruals expected.
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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 Defence Department was established to handle defence questions for the Commonwealth and remaining dependent territories when the Commonwealth Office was established in 1966.
The department was abolished upon the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in October 1968, when responsibility for Commonwealth defence passed to two new FCO departments: the Defence Policy Department and the Defence Training and Supply Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7255/
Catalogue hierarchy
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Within the department: FCO
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