Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: General Department and successors: Registered Files (GEN Series)

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Title: Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: General Department and successors: Registered Files (GEN Series)
Description:

This series contains contains files of the General Department. The records concern matters of interest to Commonwealth member states generally, and also particular issues such as war graves, disaster relief and scientific development that were handled by the General Department. Also records gifts made to former colonial territories when they achieved independence.

Date: 1953-1967
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: GEN file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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Commonwealth Relations Office, General and Migration Depaartment, 1966-1968

Commonwealth Relations Office, General Department, 1947-1962

Commonwealth Relations Office, Nationality and General Department, 1962-1965

Physical description: 128 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure

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