Item
See CO 28/136....
Catalogue reference: CO 28/134/51
Date: 1840 Aug 9
See CO 28/136. Barbados No. 76, folio 466
Item
British West Indies Regiment: asks permission to grant commissions to candidates...
Catalogue reference: CO 28/292/37
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- CO 28/292/37
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1917 Oct 13
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British West Indies Regiment: asks permission to grant commissions to candidates not of 'pure European descent'. Secretary of state replies: 'War Office have no objection to the grant to slightly coloured gentlemen of temporary commissions in British West Indies Regiment provided the candidates are British subjects and are considered in every other respect suitable to undertake the leadership of men'. Unnumbered telegram, folios 184-187
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- 50816/1917
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