Catalogue description Burma Office, Burma Secretariat, and Foreign Office, Embassy, Rangoon, Burma: General Correspondence

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Reference: FO 643
Title: Burma Office, Burma Secretariat, and Foreign Office, Embassy, Rangoon, Burma: General Correspondence
Description:

This series contains general correspondence of the Burma Secretariat inherited by HM Embassy in Rangoon under an agreement between the Foreign Office and the Burma Office, London, and of the Embassy itself.
Date: 1942-1962
Arrangement:

The files in the first 56 boxes are arranged under broad subject or functional headings keyed to an alphabetical/numerical order. On the introduction in 1947 of a G.S.O. series of files (boxes 57-80) the headings were dropped from the file jackets; but, with the aid of a file index preserved in box 80, an effort has been made to continue them in the catalogue wherever continuity of affinity of subject matter could be established. Only exceptionally have cross-references from one file to another been given; but some assistance may be forthcoming from the file index.

Item references have been created using the former department reference number, apart from FO 643/68/U1 and FO 643/80/U1 which have been artificially created.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Burma Office, 1937-1948

Burma Office, Burma Secretariat, 1942-1948

Foreign Office, Embassy, Burma, 1948-1968
Physical description: 163 boxes, files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

The Burma Office and its secretariat were in exile in India until October 1945, and afterwards were stationed in Rangoon.

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