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Foreign Office: Consular (War) Department, later Prisoners of War Department: Registered...
Catalogue reference: FO 916
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FO 916
This series contains registered files of the Consular (War) Department, later the Prisoners of War Department. Comprises reports from various sources on prisoners of war and internment camps, etc, in enemy and enemy occupied countries and on the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 916
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Consular (War) Department, later Prisoners of War Department: Registered Files (KW and RD Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1939-1948
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files of the Consular (War) Department, later the Prisoners of War Department. Comprises reports from various sources on prisoners of war and internment camps, etc, in enemy and enemy occupied countries and on the treatment of British subjects both military and civilian. Other matters dealt with include welfare, exchange, repatriations, escapes, deaths, etc.
FO 916/1469-2566 are numbers not used.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Some pieces consist of several files bound together. In such cases the individual files are described at item level; please be aware that the last digit of the item reference does not refer to any folio or other reference on the document but has been generated automatically for system reasons.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later reports see WO 224
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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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RD 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)
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- Foreign Office, Consular (War) Department, 1939-1940
- Foreign Office, Prisoners of War Department, 1939-1948
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2612 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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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A Consular (War) Department, soon renamed the Prisoners of War Department, was established early in the Second World War to deal with British and enemy prisoners of war and interned civilians, and with the care of British subjects and property in enemy and enemy-occupied territories.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8215/
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