Catalogue description Treasury: Defence Personnel Division and Defence and Overseas Personnel Division: Registered Files (DP, 2-DP and 2-DOP Series)
Reference: | T 213 |
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Title: | Treasury: Defence Personnel Division and Defence and Overseas Personnel Division: Registered Files (DP, 2-DP and 2-DOP Series) |
Description: |
Files of the Defence Personnel (DP) Division and Defence and Overseas Personnel Division relating to personnel matters for the Armed Forces and certain Civil Service departments, ministries and offices. The series also includes files of the earlier E file series (T 162), which were re-registered in the DP series in 1948. |
Date: | 1867-1970 |
Arrangement: |
Chronological within original subject classification (see Treasury Registration Systems) |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | DP, 2-DP and 2-DOP file series |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Treasury, Defence and Overseas Personnel Division, 1962-1968 Treasury, Defence Personnel Division, 1938-1962 |
Physical description: | 1114 file(s) |
Restrictions on use: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
from 1976 Treasury |
Accumulation dates: | 1948 |
Accruals: | Series is accruing |
Administrative / biographical background: |
The Defence Personnel (DP) Division was set up in April 1938. It dealt with:
When the Treasury was reorganised in 1962, the DP Division became the Defence and Overseas Personnel (DOP) Division, taking over conditions of service and allowances for all locally engaged staff and civil servants working overseas from Commonwealth and Foreign Division, including some Foreign Office questions. |
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