The story of
Britain’s youngest prisoner of war: John Giles Hipkin
14-year-old cabin boy John Giles Hipkin became Britain's youngest Second World War prisoner of war in 1941 after he was captured at sea.
Series
Home Office: Prison Department: General (PDG Symbol Series) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 391
What's it about?
HO 391
These policy files relate to the management and administration of prisons, detention centres, remand centres and borstals. They cover a variety of subjects including prison security, categorisation of prisoners, treatment of prisoners,...
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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HO 391
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Prison Department: General (PDG Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1959-1993
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Description (What the record is about)
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These policy files relate to the management and administration of prisons, detention centres, remand centres and borstals.
They cover a variety of subjects including prison security, categorisation of prisoners, treatment of prisoners, prisoners' complaints, sentences, prison disturbances, disciplinary matters, prison officers and staff, minutes of meetings of the Prison Department Committee and other groups, planning and development, including the prison building programme in the 1970s, and annual reports of prison governors and Boards of Visitors and Visiting Committees.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Prisons correspondence and papers are in HO 20, entry books are in HO 21 and HO 22, registers and returns are in HO 8, HO 9, HO 23 and HO 24, and staff appointment books are in HO 160. Memoranda to establishments are in HO 323, records of prison graves in HO 324, and specimens of prisoner records in HO 336. Further records of the Prison Department are in PCOM.
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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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PDG Symbol 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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- Home Office, 1782-1782
- Home Office, Prison Department, 1963-1963
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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742 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2007 Ministry of Justice
from 2001 Home 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing.
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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 PDG Series was the Prison Department policy series concerning the administration of prisons and prisoners.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9255/
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Home Office: Prison Department: General (PDG Symbol Series) Files
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