Catalogue description Committee on Detention Barracks (Oliver Committee): Memoranda, Minutes and Report

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Reference: WO 226
Title: Committee on Detention Barracks (Oliver Committee): Memoranda, Minutes and Report
Description:

The series contains statements from ex-prisoners and other interested parties, oral statements from witnesses, transcripts of proceedings, press-cuttings, Army and Navy material on the administration of military detention barracks, and the report of the Committee.
Date: 1912-1943
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Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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War Office, Committee on Detention Barracks, 1943-1943
Physical description: 12 file(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

Following widespread criticism in the press over conditions in detention barracks, a committee was set up in 1943 by the Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, "to enquire into and report on the treatment of men under sentence in Naval and Military Detention Barracks in the United Kingdom." The chairman was Sir Roland Oliver, MC, KC.

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