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Catalogue description Committee on Detention Barracks (Oliver Committee): Memoranda, Minutes and Report
| 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 |
| Related material: |
See also Records of the Judge Advocate General |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
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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