Objekt CO 28/296 - Despatches from Charles Richard Mackey O'Brien, governor of Barbados, in continuation of CO 28/295, as...

Despatches from Charles Richard Mackey OBrien, governor of Barbados, in continuation of CO 28/295, as well as letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals during 1919. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from Offices and Individuals (much of which relates to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 28/295 and CO 28/296) is not. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices (Government Departments): Crown Agents (purchase of surplus war stores, licence for the importation of a dog, Captain O L Hancocks application for War Gratuity); Foreign Office (services rendered by US pilot boat Philadelphia to the schooner James William , execution of Robert Neal); Home Office (cocaine and opium for Barbados); Treasury (pension for J M Lash); War Office (service of Lieutenant Leicester Grant Perkins, military stores available for issue to Barbados, appointment of governor as honorary colonel of Barbados Volunteer Force) Miscellaneous Offices: City and West End Properties Limited (financial position of Major W H G Thorne); Cumberland & Westmoreland Constabulary (Felix Joseph Campbell [see below]); HM Petroluem Executive (fuel oil supply station for Barbados); General Post Office (proposed new cables, money orders payable in United States, charges on radiotelegrams sent via the Barbados Wireless Station); Ministry of Pensions (pre-war earnings of Major A J de M Martin); Ministry of Food (services of E C Jackman); Royal Bank of Canada (additional note issue); Ministry of Shipping (war risk bonus to certain members of crew of SS Santille , repatriation of J Smith and family); Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company Limited (oil tank installation at Barbados); The Kings Fund for the Disabled (Felix Joseph Campbell); Protestant Truth Society (deportation of Pastor Joseph McLaren from St Lucia); Empire Institute (request for royal patronage); Western Telegraph Company (proposed Para-Barbados cable); Western Union Telegraph Company (proposed Barbados-Miami cable); College of Preceptors (qualifications of Mr Fitzherbert King) Individuals: Felix Joseph Campbell (letters concerning his unemployment after about 20 years in Scotland and England where he has worked as a miner and seaman, and his request to be repatriated to Barbados with his wife and two children); J E A Crawford (application for a cadetship at Sandhurst); Lieutenant Colonel F G W Dean (applications for post of surgeon general in Trinidad or British Guiana, as Senior Medical Officer in German East Africa or other senior medical post); Hubert Downes (loss of property in Germany and wish to return to Barbados); T E Fell (forwarding Lieutenant E K D Hinksons application for post of inspector of police); Captain O L Hancock (appointment as prison governor, training attachment at an English prison); Francis Jenkins (accepting appointment as colonial secretary); Lieutenant A B R Kaye (application for further employment in the Colonial Service); F O Mosley (declining post of assistant superintendent of Agriculture); Lieutenant Leicester Grant Perkins (application for transfer to a West African colony); H Revell Phillips (enquiry about procedures for his daughters forthcoming marriage in Barbados); A Roebuck (declining post as assistant superintendent of agriculture); J K Ramsbottom (declining post as assistant superintendent of agriculture).

The National Archives >> Records of the Colonial Office, Commonwealth and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, Empire Marketing Board, and related bodies >> Correspondence with the colonies, entry books and registers of correspondence >> Colonial Office and predecessors: Barbados, Original Correspondence >> Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State.

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