Catalogue description Colonial Office: Cameroons: Original correspondence

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Details of CO 649
Reference: CO 649
Title: Colonial Office: Cameroons: Original correspondence
Description:

This series contains original correspondence relating to Cameroons.

Date: 1915-1926
Related material:

For further correspondence see CO 554

For later correspondence see CO 583

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 31 volume(s)
Unpublished finding aids:

For registers to correspondence see CO 750

Administrative / biographical background:

The Cameroons were captured from German rule by British and French troops in 1916 and divided into two parts. After 1922 the British ruled sector was administered as part of Nigeria.

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