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Defence Regulation 18B: Detainees and Administration

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[edit] Home Office: Registered Papers

HO 45Home Office Registered Files 1939 - 1979
HO 45/24891 Defence Regulation 18B detainee Mosley, Sir Oswald,founder of the British Union of Fascists 1940-1945 *
HO 45/25690 Defence Regulation 18B: Detainees files1939-1945
HO 45/25746Defence Regulation 18B Detainees: SKEELS, Cecil Serocold, member of the Nordic League and one-time member of the Imperial Fascist League; convicted with David Esme Vaughan at Central Criminal Court on 17 February 1941 of offences under the defence regulations and sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment; subsequently detained under defence regulation 18B1942 - 1945
HO 45/25759Defence Regulation 18B: Detainees files, CAMILLO, Gilda 1942-1945
HO 45/25765Defence Regulation 18B Detainees: PERRING, Marie de Styczynska alias BRETT-PERRING, Marie; convicted at Bow Street Police Court on 9 October 1942 of an offence under the defence regulations and sentenced to 3 months' imprisonment; subsequently detained under defence regulation 18B1942 - 1944
HO 45/25747Lists of prominent persons detained. Defence Regulations: Regional Commissioners (Restriction of Movement) Order SR&O1940/1882; and Order SR&O 1943/333 1940-1943.
HO 45/25748Detention of a Member of Parliament 1940-1944.
HO 45/25750Allowing of members of the IRA and certain other Detainees the option of returning to the Republic of Ireland1939-1941.
HO 45/25752Accommodation of Detainees; removal of Detainees from internment camps to prisons; lists of Detainees held in prisons1940-1943.
HO 45/25753Conditions of accommodation of Detainees held in prisons1940-1944.
HO 45/25754Advisory Committee: correspondence with Norman Birkett KC; discussions on the work and administration of the Committee between the Home Office, the Home Defence Executive, the Attorney General and the security services: appeals to the Committee by members of the British Union 1940-1941.
HO 45/25755Detainees in Scotland: appearance before the Scottish Advisory Committee; list of Detainees held in Barlinnie Prison 1940.
HO 45/25758Draft defence regulation 20(1)(C); suggestions for procedure detention of British subjects. Revision of Defence Regulation 18B and new form of order. Home Office circulars 700378/180 and 824545/134, on the execution of orders under regulations 18A and 18B, issued to chief constables. Potential fifth columnists in Kent. Detention of members of the Italian Fascist Party. Correspondence with Oswald, Hickson, Collier and Co regarding the detention of Sir Oswald Mosley and other members of the British Union 1939-1940
HO 45/25767Proposal to remove overseas to a colony or dominion detained members of the British Union; application of the Habeas Corpus Acts 1679-1862 1940.
HO 45/25777Renegades and persons suspected or convicted of assisting(25840) the enemy 1940-1950.

[edit] Home Office: Supplementary Registered Papers

HO 144/22495 Accommodation for married Detainees under Defence Regulation 18B in the Isle of Man and Holloway Prison including Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley 1941-1943.
HO 144/21955Lady Diana Mosley: detained under Defence Regulation 18Bfor pro-fascist and pro-German sentiments 1940-1944. *

[edit] Internees: Personal Files

HO 214/1-75 Personal files 1940-1949.

[edit] Internment: General Files

HO 215/39 Tension between fascists and anti-fascists detained in Peveril camp, Isle of Man 1941-1943.
HO 215/49Peel Camp Isle of Man: discontinuation of employment of 18B Detainees in local fish yard 1944.
HO 215/148Purchase and holding of land on behalf of 18B Detainees, Isle of Man 1942-1944
HO 215/152Segregation of internees with different political sympathies 1940.
HO 215/168Segregation of youths detained under regulation 18B 1941.
HO 215/169Segregation of Jews detained under regulation 18B 1942.
HO 215/196-198Rules for 18B Detainees when petitioning Secretary of State 1941-1943.
HO 215/248Segregation of fascist and anti-fascist internees 1941.
HO 215/360Arrangements for married couples datained under Defence Regulation 18B 1941.
HO 215/362Accommodation for married couples detained under Defence Regulation 18B 1941.
HO 215/495Peel, Isle of Man: closure of Camp M and dispersal of 18B Detainees; enquiry from the Duke of Bedford 1945.
HO 215/496Peveril, Isle of Man: closure 1945-1946.

[edit] Defence Regulation 18B: Advisory Committee Papers

HO 283/12 Reasons of Order made under Defence Regulation 18B in the case of Oswald Mosley 1940.
HO 283/13 Sir Oswald Mosley's hearing: notes of the first day 2 July 1940.
HO 283/14Ditto: notes of second day 3 July 1940.
HO 283/15Ditto: notes of re-hearing 15 July 1940
HO 283/16Papers accompanying the Advisory Committee's recommendation 1940.
HO 283/17Advisory Committee's recommendation to the Secretary of 18 State 1940.
HO 283/26-75Detainees files 1940-1945.

[edit] Prison Commission: Registered Papers: Series II

PCOM 9/878 Mosley, Sir Oswald: interned under Defence Regulation 18B 1940-1947

[edit] Treasury Solicitor and HM Procurator General: Treasury and Miscellaneous Registered Files

TS 27/491 Defence Regulation 18B: application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus for Admiral Sir Barry Edward Domville 1940-1941.
TS 27/493Defence Regulation 18B: claim for damages for false imprisonment1940-1941.
TS 27/495Defence Regulation 18B: applications for Writ of Habeas Corpus; Mrs Mathilda Randall 1940-1941.
TS 27/496ADitto; Mr Harry Sabin1940-1941.
TS 27/506Ditto; Capt C H B Budd1941-1943.
TS 27/507Ditto; Mr Albert Harry Campbell1941.
TS 27/501Defence Regulation 18B: claim by Robert William Liversidge for damages for false imprisonment1941-1942.
TS 27/509Defence Regulation 18B: Home Office files sent for scrutiny1941.
TS 27/511Defence Regulation 18B: claims for damages for false imprisonment and breach of statutory duty; Harold Henry Alexander de Laessoe1941-1944.
TS 27/512Ditto; Frank Arbon1941-1943.
TS 27/513Defence Regulation 18B: applications for Writs of Habeas Corpus; Lieut Francis Christopher Fane, RN1941.
TS 27/514Ditto; George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers1941-1942.
TS 27/518Defence Regulation 18B: claim by Arthur Herbert Bethany against the Clerk of the Assizes of Oxford and prosecution of Bethany for libel on two Judges1941-1943.
TS 27/533Defence Regulation 18B: claim by Dr Leigh Vaughan Henry for damages for wrongful arrest and for breach of statutory duty1942-1944.
TS 27/542Defence Regulation 18B: application by John Beckett for Writ of Habeas Corpus1943-1944.
TS 27/555Defence Regulation 18B: application for Writ of Habeas Corpus Leopold Hirsch1943-1945.
  • Some sub files not open, refer to class list

[edit] Further resources

The National Archives Research Guide D51 Fascism and Anti-Fascism in the United Kingdon

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