Catalogue description War Cabinet and Committee of Imperial Defence: Imperial Communications Committee, Minutes and Memoranda

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Reference: CAB 35
Title: War Cabinet and Committee of Imperial Defence: Imperial Communications Committee, Minutes and Memoranda
Description:

This series consists of the minutes, and memoranda of the Imperial Communications Committee (ICC) of the Committee of Imperial Defence (CID), and of the minutes, reports and papers of the committees and sub-committees appointed by the ICC.

The ICC was concerned with the establishment of wireless stations in Great Britain and in the colonies; with wireless transmission, international regulation, code and cyphers, and all issues concerned with cabling.
Date: 1919-1939
Arrangement:

Chronological within subject
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ICC file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Committee of Imperial Defence, Imperial Communications Committee, 1919-1935
Physical description: 45 volume(s)
Accumulation dates: 1919-1939
Accruals: No future accruals expected
Administrative / biographical background:

The Imperial Communications Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence was established in 1919 upon a decision of the War Cabinet. Its members included representatives from the Air Ministry, War Office, Admiralty, Signals, Foreign Office, Colonial Office, India Office, Board of Trade and General Post Office.

These papers were circulated to members of the Cabinet, the CID, to members of the relevant committees or sub-committees, to representatives of the War Office and to other officials who needed to be kept informed.

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