CABINET PAPERS
Complete classes from the CAB & PREM series in the Public Record Office 
Series One: PREM 3 - Papers concerning Defence & Operational Subjects, 1940-1945 Winston Churchill, Minister of Defence, Secretariat Papers

Part 2: PREM 3/52-111 (Subject files covering Army, Artillery, Atlantic - Battle of, Australasian Forces, Balkans, Blockade, Bombs, Bombsight, Bracelet, Bulgaria, Camouflage, Canadian Forces, Catapult Ships, Chemical Warfare, China, Civil Defence, Coastal Command, Commandos, Convoys, Crete and Crossbow)

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PREM 3/52/1 - ARMY: Commands: Middle East and India, April 1941-November 1943
PREM 3/52/2 - ARMY: Commands: London District, Home Forces, East and West Africa, February 1943-January 1944
PREM 3/52/3 - ARMY: Commands: Iraq-Persia, May 1941-January 1945
PREM 3/52/4 - ARMY: Commands: Far East, August 1941-February 1942
PREM 3/52/5 - ARMY: Commands: Burma, November 1941-March 1942

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PREM 3/53/1 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Air organisation for operations against Japan, May 1943
PREM 3/53/2 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Commander in Chief India - General Auchinleck, June-July 1943
PREM 3/53/3 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Supreme Commander South East Asia - possible appointments June-August 1943
PREM 3/53/4 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Supreme Commander South East Asia - Admiral Mountbatten, August-September 1943
PREM 3/53/5 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Organisation of South East Asia Command, April-September 1943
PREM 3/53/6 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Directive to Viceroy in relation to South East Asia Command, October 1943
PREM 3/53/7 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: South East Asia Naval Command, November 1943
PREM 3/53/8 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Directive to Commander in Chief India in relation to South East Asia Command, October 1943
PREM 3/53/9 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Directive to Supreme Commander South East Asia, August-November 1943
PREM 3/53/10 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Air Commander in Chief South East Asia - A C M Leigh-Mallory, August-October 1944
PREM 3/53/11 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Land Forces Commander in Chief South East Asia - General Leese, May-November 1944
PREM 3/53/12 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Generals Stilwell, Wedemeyer, etc, September 1943-July 1945
PREM 3/53/13 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Principal Administrative Officer South East Asia Command - General Wheeler, August-October 1943
PREM 3/53/14 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Visit of Admiral Mountbatten to General MacArthur, February-June 1945
PREM 3/53/15 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Medical organisation in South East Asia Command, September 1943-May 1944
PREM 3/53/16 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Various, June 1943-July 1945

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PREM 3/54/1 - ARMY: General: Formation and organisation of armoured divisions, August-September 1940
PREM 3/54/2 - ARMY: General: Educational and recreational facilities for troops, August-September 1940
PREM 3/54/3 - ARMY: General: ‘Winter work’ proposal, September-October 1941
PREM 3/54/4 - ARMY: General: R A S C Depot at Slough, August 1940-August 1941
PREM 3/54/5 - ARMY: General: Organisation of armoured divisions, April 1941-August 1942
PREM 3/54/6 - ARMY: General: British Troops at Home, December 1942-February 1943
PREM 3/54/7 - ARMY: General: Regimental designations, November 1942-March 1943
PREM 3/54/8 - ARMY: General: Strength return of Home Forces and Middle East [missing from the original], November 1942-March 1943
PREM 3/54/9 - ARMY: General: Tables of divisions in East and West, October 1943-July 1945
PREM 3/54/10 - ARMY: General: Surrenders to enemy, July 1942-January 1943
PREM 3/54/11 - ARMY: General: Various, May 1940-December 1942
PREM 3/54/12 - ARMY: General: Various, January 1943-July 1945

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PREM 3/55/1 - ARMY: Manpower: Army Scales directive, January-March 1941
PREM 3/55/2 - ARMY: Manpower: Manpower Requirements and Organisation of the Army, February 1941
PREM 3/55/3 - ARMY: Manpower: Reorganisation of Army, July-November 1942
PREM 3/55/4 - ARMY: Manpower: Mechanical transport scales, March-October 1942
PREM 3/55/5 - ARMY: Manpower: Service Establishments, October 1942
PREM 3/55/6 - ARMY: Manpower: Army manpower requirements particularly for Guards formations and from R A F Regiment, April 1943-August 1944
PREM 3/55/7 - ARMY: Manpower: Ratio of forward and rearward troops in divisions, December 1940-February 1941
PREM 3/55/8 - ARMY: Manpower: Increases in Army, July-September 1941
PREM 3/55/9 - ARMY: Manpower: Army strengths, September 1941-August 1942
PREM 3/55/10 - ARMY: Manpower: Army manpower requirements and distribution, August 1944-May 1945
PREM 3/55/11 - ARMY: Manpower: Various, June 1940-November 1941 and February 1944-June 1945

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PREM 3/56 - ARROW FLOWER BED, June 1940
PREM 3/57/1 - ARTILLERY: Anti-aircraft guns, July 1940-November 1944
PREM 3/57/2 - ARTILLERY: Field guns, May 1940-March 1941
PREM 3/57/3 - ARTILLERY: Various, February 1942 and August-November 1944
PREM 3/58 - ARMY: Operation ASCOT in Norway, November 1941
PREM 3/59 - ATLANTIC: Post-war bases, October 1942
PREM 3/60/1 - BATTLE OF ATLANTIC: Reports from departments, March-April 1941
PREM 3/60/2 - BATTLE OF ATLANTIC: Directives, March 1941
PREM 3/60/3 - BATTLE OF ATLANTIC: Various, March 1941-May 1942
PREM 3/61 - ARMY: General Auchinleck, February 1943-March 1943
PREM 3/62/1 - ARMY: General Godwin-Austin proposed inquiry into Somaliland campaign, August-September 1940
PREM 3/62/2 - ARMY: General Godwin-Austin proposed inquiry into Somaliland campaign - Re-employment and case of General Cunningham, February-October 1942
PREM 3/63/1 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Maximum strength of Australian forces, October 1941
PREM 3/63/2 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Aggregation of Australian troops and relief of Tobruk, July-November 1941
PREM 3/63/3 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: General Blamey, October 1941-March 1942
PREM 3/63/4 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Australian division to reinforce Burma, February 1942
PREM 3/63/5 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Retention of New Zealand division in Mediterranean, March-June 1943
PREM 3/63/6 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: New Zealand manpower, September 1943-September 1944
PREM 3/63/7 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Employment of New Zealand land forces against Japan, August 1944-January 1945
PREM 3/63/8 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Australian manpower and war effort, October 1943-April 1945
PREM 3/63/9 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Australian war effort, January-June 1945
PREM 3/63/10 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Return of Australian and New Zealand divisions from Middle East, February-December 1942

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PREM 3/63/11 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Australian and New Zealand divisions for Greece, February-March 1941
PREM 3/63/12 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Reinforcement of New Zealand division, July-August 1942
PREM 3/63/13 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Various, August 1940-October 1944
PREM 3/64 - AUTOMATIC GUNS, May 1941-March 1942
PREM 3/65 - BACTERIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WARFARE, December 1941-July 1942 and February-June 1944
PREM 3/66/1 - BALKANS: Gemany and Balkans, August 1943
PREM 3/66/2 - BALKANS: Policy in Greece and Yugoslavia, October 1943
PREM 3/66/3 - BALKANS: EAM, ELAS, etc, October 1943
PREM 3/66/4 - BALKANS: Operations in Greece and Yugoslavia, July-October 1943
PREM 3/66/5 - BALKANS: Handling of Balkan affairs, [missing from the original] April-June 1944
PREM 3/66/6 - BALKANS: Control of operations and relief in Balkans, February-August 1944
PREM 3/66/7 - BALKANS: Spheres of influence in Balkans, May-October 1944
PREM 3/66/8 - BALKANS: Yugoslav-Bulgarian pact and Macedonian question, April 1944-February 1945
PREM 3/66/9 - BALKANS: Yalta declaration on ‘Liberated Europe’, July 1945
PREM 3/66/10 - BALKANS: Balkans bombing targets and bombing control, January-July 1944
PREM 3/66/11 - BALKANS: Various, April-October 1944

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PREM 3/67 - BALLOONS, May 1940-December 1942
PREM 3/68 - BEACH DEFENCES: neutralization by bombing, April-September 1943
PREM 3/69A - BELGIUM, May 1940-January 1945
PREM 3/69B - BELGIUM: position of King Leopold, 1945
PREM 3/70 - Operation BELLOWS, August 1942
PREM 3/71 - BEVAN: Neglect of duty by Captain Bevan RN, October 1940
PREM 3/72 - BAY OF BISCAY, bombing of ports and anti-submarine patrols, November 1942-November 1943

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PREM 3/73 - Operation BITING: (Bruneval raid), February-March 1942
PREM 3/74/1 - BLOCKADE: Food for Yugoslavia, June-July 1942
PREM 3/74/2 - BLOCKADE: Food for Belgium, April-September 1942
PREM 3/74/3 - BLOCKADE: Blockade runners between Europe and Far East, May 1942-March 1943
PREM 3/74/4 - BLOCKADE: Food for Norway, December 1942-February 1943
PREM 3/74/5 - BLOCKADE: Food for Greece, November 1941-October 1942 and January-March 1944
PREM 3/74/6 - BLOCKADE: Food for unoccupied France, November 1940-April 1941
PREM 3/74/7 - BLOCKADE: Interception of French shipping, March-May 1941
PREM 3/74/8 - BLOCKADE: Food for occupied countries, particularly Belgium, October 1942-January 1943
PREM 3/74/9 - BLOCKADE: Food for occupied countries, March-October 1944
PREM 3/74/10 - BLOCKADE: Various, July 1940-January 1942 and July 1944-March 1945

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PREM 3/75/1 - BOMBS: Bomb disposal, August 1940-January 1941
PREM 3/75/2 - BOMBS: Air Ministry bomb requirements, September 1941
PREM 3/75/3 - BOMBS: Delay action fuses, August 1940-November 1941
PREM 3/75/4 - BOMBS: Incendiary bombs, May 1942-June 1943
PREM 3/75/5 - BOMBS: Rocket-assisted concrete-piercing bombs, November 1943-July 1944
PREM 3/75/6 - BOMBS: Requirements, production and design of bombs, May 1941-July 1942
PREM 3/75/7 - BOMBS: French-designed radio-controlled bombs, November 1943-February 1944
PREM 3/75/8 - BOMBS: Various, September 1940-September 1941, May-September 1943 and March 1945
PREM 3/76/1 - BOMBSIGHT: Mr Justice Singleton’s enquiry, December 1939-December 1940
PREM 3/76/2 - BOMBSIGHT: Reports, June 1940-January 1941
PREM 3/76A/1 - BRACELET conferences (Cairo and Moscow): Proposal of meeting, June-July 1942
PREM 3/76A/2 - BRACELET: Arrangements for Cairo, July 1942
PREM 3/76A/3 - BRACELET: Addition of Mr Harriman, August 1942
PREM 3/76A/4 - BRACELET: Travel arrangements for Russians, August 1942
PREM 3/76A/5 - BRACELET: Gibraltar visit, August 1942
PREM 3/76A/6 - BRACELET: Gibraltar visit, August 1942
PREM 3/76A/7 - BRACELET: Telegrams to Dominions, August 1942
PREM 3/76A/8 - BRACELET: Message from H M the King, August 1942
PREM 3/76A/9 - BRACELET: Telegram exchanged with General Smuts, July-August 1942
PREM 3/76A/10 - BRACELET: Communiqu and post-conference telegrams, August 1942
PREM 3/76A/11 - BRACELET: Telegrams to War Cabinet and President Roosevelt, August 1942
PREM 3/76A/12 - BRACELET: Records of Cairo and Moscow conferences, August-December 1942
PREM 3/77 - BRAZIL, September 1942-August 1944
PREM 3/78 - BRITISH HONDURAS, April-May 1945
PREM 3/79/1 - BULGARIA: Bombing of and negotiations with Bulgaria, October 1943-March 1944
PREM 3/79/2 - BULGARIA: Bulgarian armistice, particularly in relation to Russia, August-October 1944

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PREM 3/79/3 - BULGARIA: Bulgarian armistice, September-November 1944
PREM 3/79/4 - BULGARIA: Soviet-Bulgarian relations, April-July 1945
PREM 3/79/5 - BULGARIA: Various, August 1944-July 1945
PREM 3/80 - BUMPER: air-army co-operation exercise, October-November 1941
PREM 3/81/1 - CAMOUFLAGE: Steel wool, June-August 1940
PREM 3/81/2 - CAMOUFLAGE: Steel wool enquiry, September-October 1940
PREM 3/81/3 - CAMOUFLAGE: Report of Committee on Concealment and Deception, August 1941
PREM 3/81/4 - CAMOUFLAGE: Various (including photographs), July-November 1941
PREM 3/82 - Sir Gerald CAMPBELL and Lord Beaverbrook, August-November 1940
PREM 3/83/1 - CANADIAN FORCES: Employment of Canadian division in Sicily, February-August 1943
PREM 3/83/2 - CANADIAN FORCES: Announcement of employment of Canadian division in Sicily, July-August 1943
PREM 3/83/3 - CANADIAN FORCES: Movement of Canadian Armoured Division to Mediterranean, September-October 1943
PREM 3/83/4 - CANADIAN FORCES: Canadian Joint Staff Mission and command of Canadian forces, March-June 1944
PREM 3/83/5 - CANADIAN FORCES: Canadian conscription, October-December 1944
PREM 3/83/6 - CANADIAN FORCES: Various, October 1943-July 1945
PREM 3/84 - CATAPULT SHIPS, December 1940-May 1942
PREM 3/85A - General CATROUX, September 1940-May 1941
PREM 3/85B - Closed for 75 years

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PREM 3/86 - CEMENT, August-November 1940
PREM 3/87 - CHANNEL ISLANDS, June 1940-June 1945
PREM 3/88/1 - CHEMICAL WARFARE (I): Memorandum on Chemical Warfare, September 1941
PREM 3/88/2 - CHEMICAL WARFARE (I): Defensive, November 1940-March 1944
PREM 3/88/3 - CHEMICAL WARFARE (I): Offensive, June 1940-May 1944
PREM 3/89 - CHEMICAL WARFARE (II), February 1944-June 1945

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PREM 3/90/1 - CHINA: International air force and other assistance to China, August 1941-January 1942
PREM 3/90/2 - CHINA: Lease-lend supplies, December 1941-January 1942
PREM 3/90/3 - CHINA: Supply routes, October 1940 and February 1942-March 1944
PREM 3/90/4 - CHINA: Progress report on operations in China, April 1944-June 1945, 1945
PREM 3/90/5A - CHINA: Various, April 1941-May 1945
PREM 3/90/5B - CHINA: Chinese insistence on treating Tibet as a vassal state: UK and US policy, 1944
PREM 3/91 - CIVIL AFFAIRS IN EUROPE: UK-US organisation, November 1943-May 1944
PREM 3/92 - CIVIL AFFAIRS IN EUROPE: appointment of local civilians as military officers, September 1943-February 1944

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PREM 3/93/1 - CIVIL DEFENCE: Protection of factories, May-August 1940
PREM 3/93/2 - CIVIL DEFENCE: Sir Auckland Geddes and Home defence organisation, July-November 1940
PREM 3/93/3 - CIVIL DEFENCE: London region organisation, Undated
PREM 3/93/4 - CIVIL DEFENCE: Fire Prevention Executive, December 1940-January 1941
PREM 3/93/5 - CIVIL DEFENCE: Blackout restrictions, August 1940-February 1943
PREM 3/93/6 - CIVIL DEFENCE: Blackout in factories, July 1943
PREM 3/93/7 - CIVIL DEFENCE: Sir Hugh Elles, chief of civil defence operational staff, June 1940
PREM 3/93/8 - CIVIL DEFENCE: Various, June 1940-May 1941
PREM 3/94 - CIVIL LABOUR for defence work, June-August 1940
PREM 3/95 - CLIPPERTON ISLAND survey, November 1944-January 1945
PREM 3/96/1 - CLOTHING: Rationing, May 1941
PREM 3/96/2 - CLOTHING: Service requirements, February 1941-April 1945
PREM 3/97/1 - COASTAL COMMAND: Transfers from Bomber Command, February-September 1942
PREM 3/97/2 - COASTAL COMMAND: Various, October 1940-June 1945
PREM 3/98A - CODE NAMES, January 1941-July 1945
PREM 3/98B - CODE NAMES, 1941
PREM 3/99/1 - COLONIES: African defence, September-October 1940
PREM 3/99/2 - COLONIES: West Indian Brigade, January 1940-November 1941

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PREM 3/100 - Operation COLOSSUS in Italy, January-February 1941
PREM 3/101 - COMMAND: Supreme commander of operations against Germany, November-December 1943
PREM 3/102 - COMMAND: Meetings of commanders-in-chief, October 1940-January 1941
PREM 3/103/1 - COMMANDOS AND SPECIAL COMPANIES: Organisation and equipment, August-September 1940
PREM 3/103/2 - COMMANDOS AND SPECIAL COMPANIES: Use of Benzedrine, March 1941
PREM 3/103/3 - COMMANDOS AND SPECIAL COMPANIES: Lovat Scouts, October 1942-June 1943
PREM 3/103/4 - COMMANDOS AND SPECIAL COMPANIES: In Mediterranean, December 1943-February 1944
PREM 3/103/5 - COMMANDOS AND SPECIAL COMPANIES: In Far East, May-July 1945
PREM 3/103/6 - COMMANDOS AND SPECIAL COMPANIES: Various, November 1941-March 1945
PREM 3/104/1 - CONVOYS: Report of Mr Justice Oliver on security, February 1941
PREM 3/104/2 - CONVOYS: Correspondence and Papers arising from above Report, February 1941-October 1942
PREM 3/104/3 - CONVOYS: Report of Mr Justice Tucker on marking of goods for shipment, October-November 1942
PREM 3/104/4 - CONVOYS: Various, December 1942-September 1943
PREM 3/105 - COPPER SUPPLIES to Germany, January-February 1941
PREM 3/106 - CORSICA, July-October 1943
PREM 3/107/1 - COURTS MARTIAL: Closed for 100 years
PREM 3/107/2 - COURTS MARTIAL: Closed for 100 years
PREM 3/107/3 - COURTS MARTIAL: Various, October 1941-February 1942
PREM 3/108 - COVENTRY: defence of and damage to, November 1940

REEL 30
PREM 3/109 - CRETE, November 1940-September 1942
PREM 3/110 - CROSSBOW: pre-attack: (Rockets and pilotless aircraft), April 1943-February 1944

REEL 31
PREM 3/111A - CROSSBOW: post-attack, June 1944-May 1945
PREM 3/111B - CROSSBOW, August 1944