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Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office: Allied Commission for...
Catalogue reference: FO 1076
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FO 1076
This series consists mainly of diaries kept by Col Prescott during his service with the Control Commissions for Germany and Austria in 1945-48, with a series of annexed papers. Some diary entries go back to 1940 and include the period when Col...
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- FO 1076
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Title (The name of the record)
- Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office: Allied Commission for Austria (British Element), Economic Division, and Control Commission for Germany (British Element): Post War Diaries of Lieutenant Colonel J L Prescott, First British Secretary of Bipartite Board
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1940-1948
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists mainly of diaries kept by Col Prescott during his service with the Control Commissions for Germany and Austria in 1945-48, with a series of annexed papers. Some diary entries go back to 1940 and include the period when Col Prescott was co-ordinating local resources policy for the Allied Forces in North Africa and Italy. The annexes to his diaries include a complete set of all Bipartite Board documents published up to 26 April 1948.
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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)
- 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)
- Prescott, J L, 1940-1948
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 14 file(s)
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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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From 1 May 1945 to 25 March 1946 J L Prescott served with the Economic Division of the British Element of the Allied Commission for Austria, and dealt with the allocation of local resources, price control and rationing; from 26 March until April 7 1948 he served with Control Commission for Germany (British Element) and was the first British secretary of the Bipartite Board.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8375/
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Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office: Allied Commission for Austria (British Element), Economic Division, and Control Commission for Germany (British Element): Post War Diaries of Lieutenant Colonel J L Prescott, First British Secretary of Bipartite Board
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