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Catalogue description Committee of Imperial Defence: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Minutes and Memoranda
| Reference: | CAB 53 |
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| Title: | Committee of Imperial Defence: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Minutes and Memoranda |
| Description: |
This series consists of the minutes and memoranda of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (including some memoranda of the Joint Planning Committee and of the Joint Intelligence Sub-committee) and one volume of papers of the Sub-Committee on Seaborne Land Attack on the British Isles dated 1930. |
| Date: | 1923-1939 |
| Arrangement: |
Chronological |
| Related material: |
Minutes and memoranda of the Chiefs of Staff Committee after 1 Sept 1939 can be found in: For further records see War Office, Division within WO |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Committee of Imperial Defence, Chiefs of Staff Committee, 1923-1939 |
| Physical description: | 55 volume(s) |
| Access conditions: | Available in digital format unless otherwise stated |
| Accruals: | No future accruals expected |
| Publication note: |
Salisbury Committee on National and Imperial Defence, (Cmnd 2029) 1924 |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Chiefs of Staff (COS) Committee was established by the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1923 following the recommendations of the Salisbury Committee on National and Imperial Defence, and approval by the Cabinet in November 1923. The function of the COS Committee was to keep the defence situation under review, to ensure the co-ordination of defence preparations, and to advise the CID on questions of sea, land and air policy, as well as on defence policy as a whole. |
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