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  War Office: Selected Smaller Corps Other Ranks: Service Records

  This series consists of 94,242 service records of soldiers (but not officers) who served in 12 different smaller units/corps of the British Army during the Second World War and immediately after, and who were discharged from the armed forces as over …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  [1939-1963]

  Reference

  WO 421

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  War Office: Royal Engineer Board, later Royal Engineer and Signals Board: Extracts...

  The series consists of printed handbooks of extracts relating to equipment and research from the proceedings of the A (Field Engineers), B (Air Defence) and C (Signals) Committees of the Royal Engineer Board (1919 to 1936) and Royal Engineer and Sign…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1919-1938

  Reference

  WO 187

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  Committee of Imperial Defence: Home Ports Defence Committee, later Home Defence Committee:...

  This series consists of the minutes of the Home Ports Defence Committee (HPDC), later the Home Defence Committee (HDC) of the Committee of Imperial Defence.Topics covered include fixed defences at defended ports (including defence of the Channel Isla…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1909-1939

  Reference

  CAB 12

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  Series

  Committee of Imperial Defence: Home Ports Defence Committee later Home Defence Committee:...

  This series consists of the memoranda and papers of the Home Ports Defence Committee (HPDC), later the Home Defence Committee (HDC) of the Committee of Imperial Defence, and of its sub-committees.Subjects covered include fixed defences at defended po…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1909-1939

  Reference

  CAB 13

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  Government Code and Cypher School: Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force...

  This series consists of records relating to signals intelligence work carried out by the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, covering subjects such as the organisation of air signals intelligence, minutes of meetings, policy on the organ…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1943-1945

  Reference

  HW 60

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  Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Local Government Divisions...

  General policy files of the Local Government Board, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government containing correspondence, legal opinions, proposals and reports, on the prevention, control, detection and measurement of air…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1914-1976

  Reference

  HLG 55

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  Series

  Admiralty: Operational Intelligence Centre: Intelligence from Intercepted German,...

  File copies of teleprinter messages. The various series of messages are of two distinct types: intercepted signals, decrypted, translated, and sent from the German Naval Section of the Admiralty's Naval Intelligence Division at Bletchley Park to the …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1941-1945

  Reference

  DEFE 3

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  Series

  Ministry of Supply, Air Division, and Ministry of Aviation: Registered Files (AA...

  Files, bearing the prefix AA, of Air A1 Branch of Air Division (A) of the Ministry of Supply and successor departments. They reflect the responsibilities of the Ministry of Supply and the Ministry of Aviation for the development, production and maint…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1952-1973

  Reference

  AVIA 63

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  Ministry of Aircraft Production and Ministry of Supply: Airborne Forces Establishment,...

  Reports on research on and development of the means of transport and delivery of airborne forces and their equipment.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1941-1950

  Reference

  AVIA 21

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  War Office: Air Defence Experimental Establishment: Reports

  Reports on acoustical devices and gun sound ranging.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1925-1942

  Reference

  AVIA 17

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  Series

  Air Ministry and successors: Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment: Reports

  Reports on research, acceptance tests and trials on marine aircraft and their equipment and armament and on air-sea rescue apparatus.The reports in this series were created by MAEE between 1924 and 1956. Those with the prefix "F" were created at Feli…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1924-1956

  Reference

  AVIA 19

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  Series

  Royal Air Force, Strike Command: Reports, Files, Memos and Operation Orders

  This series consists of files and reports, memos and operation orders of all RAF Strike Command's constituent groups.The series includes reports, memoranda and notes of Operational Research Branches, Strike Command and No 18 Group; missile firing rep…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1958-2002

  Reference

  DEFE 58

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  Series

  Air Ministry: P4 (Cas) Files relating to casualties suffered during air operations...

  Case files raised by Air Ministry Casualty Branch P4(Cas) in respect of Second World War casualties.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1939-2022

  Reference

  AIR 81

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  Air Ministry and Ministry of Aircraft Production: Air Transport Auxiliary: Papers

  Records relating to the formation, recruitment, operations and winding up of the Air Transport Auxiliary.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1939-1947

  Reference

  AVIA 27

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  Series

  Ministry of Aviation and successors: Aeronautical Information Service: Aerodrome...

  This series comprises files containing information relating to specific aerodromes in the British Isles.Information was distributed by means of a formal briefing service and by such publications as the Air Pilot and Notices to Airmen (NOTAMS).The reg…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1957-1972

  Reference

  AVIA 75

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  Series

  Air Ministry and Successors: Civil Aviation Accident Reports (C, W, and S Reports)...

  Reports containing brief descriptions of accidents involving civil aircraft; details on the aircraft; names of owners, pilots and passengers, opinions as to the cause of the accidents; and recommendations regarding defective design, etc.Some of the r…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1919-1976

  Reference

  AVIA 5

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  Series

  Ministry of Supply, Ministry of Aviation, Ministry of Technology & Ministry of Aviation...

  Reports of the Electrical Inspection Directorate responsible for the inspection of electrical and electronic equipment procured for the Army and the Air Force and for similar items procured for use in naval aircraft, as well as atomic weapons for all…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1959-1988

  Reference

  AVIA 89

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  Series

  Air Ministry and successors: Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment: Reports...

  Reports, and notes of a technical nature, on various tests carried out on aircraft, their armament and equipment, including acceptance tests.The reports in this series, which commence in 1924, consist of the following groups:Report prefix ATO/A, B,..…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1924-1998

  Reference

  AVIA 18

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  Series

  War Cabinet and Cabinet: Deputy Chiefs of Staff Committee and Sub- committees: Minutes...

  This series consists of minutes and papers of the Deputy Chiefs of Staff Committee and its various sub-committees, covering a variety of subjects such active air defence, inter-service training, vulnerable points, defence services, police forces, ato…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1939-1947

  Reference

  CAB 82

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  Series

  Committee of Imperial Defence: Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee: Minutes and Memoranda...

  This series contains the minutes and papers of the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee (June 1936 to August 1939), the minutes and papers of the Sub-Committee on Air Warfare in Spain (1937-1938) and the minutes and papers of the Sub-Committee on Air War…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1936-1939, 1974

  Reference

  CAB 56