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Military Service for Government Code and Cypher School Personnel

28 Jul 1941

A file of correspondence concerning the conscription of Government Code & Cypher School (GC&CS) personnel in 1941. Subjects covered in the file include the government policy on the release of civil service staff to military service; extra work caused by the need to apply for and justify exemptions for all members of GC&CS staff below the age of 30; the rejected possibility of making all GC&CS work a reserved occupation; and plans to create automatic exemption from military service for certain classes of GC&CS work.
manpower recruitment signals second world war personnel conscription secrecy chiefs of staff foreign office intelligence organization stewart menzies government code and cypher school cyphers reserved occupations
Collection ID
CAB301
Conflict
Second World War
Document Reference
CAB 301/71/2
Document Types
Correspondence
File Reference
CAB 301/71
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.cab301.0071.002
Keywords
Conscription Reserved Occupations Cyphers Personnel Secrecy Signals Recruitment Manpower
Languages
English
Organizations
Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Government Code and Cypher School
Pages
8
Persons Discussed
Stewart Menzies
Published in
United Kingdom
Themes
Intelligence Organization

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