Freedom of Information: Records released as a result of Freedom of
Information (FOI) requests
April 2006
This table lists the individual records opened in April 2006 as a result of
FOI requests.
Subject
Date of
record
1941-1943
Description
Board of Stamps
Catalogue
reference
IR 59/882
Board of Trade
BT 222/10
1943-1947
Payment of rewards to
general public for information
provided in Board of Trade
prosecutions cases
Boards of Stamps
IR 62/2197
1946
Bequests to various
institutions: Sir Daniel M
Stevenson
Boards of Stamps
IR 59/776
1929-1939
DE TRAFFORD, Sir
Humphrey Francis: accounts
Boards of Stamps
IR 62/1417
1933
Bequest to Exeter Museum:
J Jackman
Boards of Stamps
IR 59/525
1918-1967
McCUDDEN, Major James
Thomas Byford, VC, DSO,
MC
British Council
BW 22/24
1971 Jan
01 - 1982
Dec 31
General policy: including
ODA Country Policy Paper;
'Education in Chile' by the
Chile Committee for Human
BADEN-POWELL, Rt Hon
Robert Stephenson Smyth,
CM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB,
Baron Peer of the Realm, of
Gillwell of Pax Hill
Rights
Courts Martial
WO 71/1105
1945
Harpley, DA Offence: Rape
Courts Martial
AIR 18/50
1966 Feb
21
Sgt Kelly, A B. Offence:
Murder. (Conviction later
quashed)
Crime
HO
1922
144/1754/425994
CRIMINAL CASES:
ARMSTRONG, Herbert
Rowse Convicted at Hereford
on 13 April 1922 for murder
and sentenced to death
Crime
HO 144/22540
1926-1946
CRIMINAL: Michael Dennis
Corrigan alias Edward
Kettering alias Kenneth
Edward Cassidy: confidence
trickster.
Crime
HO 144/14913
1931
CRIMINAL: Unsolved murder
of Louisa Maud Steele at
Blackheath: alleged
confession by Arthur James
Faraday Salvage, murderer
of Ivy Godden.
Crime
HO 144/5200
1925
CRIMINAL CASES:
BIGNALL, William Grover
Convicted at Devizes on 30
January 1925 for murder and
sentenced to death
Crime
HO 144/22871
1946
CRIMINAL CASES: HEATH,
Neville George Clevely
Convicted at Central Criminal
Court (CCC) on 26
September 1946 for murder
and sentenced to death
Crime
HO
1911
144/1555/206162
CRIMINAL CASES:
FELTON, Willie Samuel
Convicted at Leeds on 21
March 1911 for murder and
sentenced to death
(commuted)
Crime
HO
1922
144/1756/425994
CRIMINAL CASES:
ARMSTRONG, Herbert
Rowse Convicted at Hereford
on 13 April 1922 for murder
and sentenced to death
Crime
HO
1922
144/1757/425994
CRIMINAL CASES:
ARMSTRONG, Herbert
Rowse Convicted at Hereford
on 13 April 1922 for murder
and sentenced to death
Criminal Justice
BS 26/673
Jury vetting
Department of
Health and Social
Security:
Children’s Division
BN 62/2466
1991 Dec
20 - 1992
Mar 10
1965 Jan
01-1974
Dec 31
Department of
Trade
PJ 1/44
1976 Jan
01 - 1977
Dec 31
International agreement on
corrupt practices: United
Nations convention on
bribery and extortion in
international trade;
Resolution 3514
Department of
Trade
PJ 1/50
1977 Jan
01 - 1977
Dec 31
International agreement on
corrupt practices: United
Nations convention on
bribery and extortion in
international trade;
Resolution 3514
Department of
Trade
PJ 1/51
1977 Jan
01 - 1977
Dec 31
International agreement on
corrupt practices: United
Nations convention on
bribery and extortion in
international trade;
Resolution 3514
Department of
Trade
PJ 1/52
1977 Jan
01 - 1977
Dec 31
International agreement on
corrupt practices: United
Nations convention on
bribery and extortion in
international trade;
Resolution 3514
Department of
Trade
PJ 1/53
1977 Jan
01 - 1978
Dec 31
International agreement on
corrupt practices: United
Nations convention on
London Borough of Lambeth,
Shirley Oaks, Croydon:
reports of visits; future use of
site
bribery and extortion in
international trade;
Resolution 3514
Department of
Trade
PJ 1/55
1977 Jan
01 - 1978
Dec 31
International agreement on
corrupt practices: United
Nations convention on
bribery and extortion in
international trade;
Resolution 3514
Department of
Trade
PJ 1/57
1978 Jan
01 - 1978
Dec 31
International agreement on
corrupt practices: United
Nations convention on
bribery and extortion in
international trade;
Resolution 3514
Department of
Trade
PJ 1/60
1978 Jan
01 - 1978
Dec 31
International agreement on
corrupt practices: United
Nations convention on
bribery and extortion in
international trade;
Resolution 3514
Department of
Trade
PJ 1/61
1978 Jan
01 - 1979
Dec 31
International agreement on
corrupt practices: United
Nations convention on
bribery and extortion in
international trade;
Resolution 3514
Department of
Trade
PJ 1/62
1979 Jan
01 - 1979
Dec 31
International agreement on
corrupt practices: United
Nations convention on
bribery and extortion in
international trade;
Resolution 3514
Department of
Trade
PJ 1/63
1979 Jan
01 - 1979
Dec 31
International agreement on
corrupt practices: United
Nations convention on
bribery and extortion in
international trade;
Resolution 3514
Department of
Trade
PJ 1/64
1979 Jan
01 - 1979
Dec 31
International agreement on
corrupt practices: United
Nations convention on
bribery and extortion in
international trade;
Resolution 3514
Department of
Trade
PJ 1/65
1979 Jan
01 - 1979
Dec 31
International agreement on
corrupt practices: United
Nations convention on
bribery and extortion in
international trade;
Resolution 3514
Department of
Trade
PJ 1/66
1979 Jan
01 - 1979
Dec 31
International agreement on
corrupt practices: United
Nations convention on
bribery and extortion in
international trade;
Resolution 3514
Department of
Trade
PJ 1/46
1977 Jan
01 - 1977
Dec 31
International agreement on
corrupt practices: United
Nations convention on
bribery and extortion in
international trade;
Resolution 3514
Environment
FD 7/3289
1989-1991
White Paper on the
environment: notes and
correspondence with draft
White Paper; publications on
British environmental
strategy
General Register
Office
RG 900/1
1915-1919
National Registration Acts,
1915 and 1918: specimens
of documents from the
General Register Office and
local registration authority
offices; memorandum on the
National Register
Higher Education
in Malaya
BW 90/543
1945Correspondence and papers
1948; 1981 concerning future of higher
education in Malaya following
Japanese occupation
Home Office
HO 45/25603
1944-1953
WAR: Offences committed
by US Forces personnel in
the UK; liaison between the
police and the US military
authorities
Home Office
HO 45/23788
1940
WAR: Ernest Norman, friend
of Olive Evelyn Baker and
Mrs C Mitchell: ruling on
power of Regional
Commissioner; detention
Home Office
HO 45/25601
1942-1944
WAR: Offences committed
by US Forces personnel in
the UK; liaison between the
police and the US military
authorities
Home Office
HO 45/23921
1948-1949
CRIMINAL CASES:
GRIFFITHS, Peter: convicted
at Lancaster on 15 Oct 1948
of murder and sentenced to
death
Home Office
HO 45/25626/1
1945
Previously closed extracts:
Part of sentence in a Special
Branch report dated
29/3/1945; 2 paragraphs
from a Special Branch report
dated 29/3/1945. Now
released and reunited with
parent piece
Home Office
HO 144/22002
1943-1944
PARDONS: Reverend Martin
Kiddle convicted of
importuning male persons for
an immoral purpose: free
pardon granted after
sentence of imprisonment
quashed
Home Office:
Children's
Department
MH 102/2069
1952-1954
Proposed adoption by a
negro woman of a child of an
Englishwoman and a
coloured US serviceman; the
child being in care of a local
authority: permission for
adoption refused
Honours
PREM 2/136
1954
New Year honours
Honours
PREM 2/149
1960
Birthday honours
Metropolitan
Police
MEPO 3/632
1939
The Twelve Club, 12 Kentish
Town Road, NW1: Harold
Robinson
Metropolitan
Police
MEPO 2/9472
1953-1955
Alleged indiscipline at
Kentish Town Section
House: shows general
principle governing
representations to Members
of Parliament by police
officers
Ministry of
Defence
DEFE 24/1001
1976 Nov
25 - 1977
Jul 11
Millbank Technical Services
Ltd: transfer to MoD of
responsibility for defence
contracts
Ministry of
Defence
DEFE 24/1000
1976 Nov
16 - 1977
Apr 01
Crown Agents: Millbank
Technical Services Ltd
(MTS); discussion of future
Ministerial responsibility for
MTS
Ministry of Health
MH 154/639
1967-1976
National Health Service
Regulations (venereal
disease) 1968: proposals for
amendments on contact
tracing; memorandum,
minutes of meetings
Ministry of Health
MH 156/415
1976 Jan
01-1976
Dec 31
Ministry of Health
MH 154/1215
1978 Jan
01 - 1983
Dec 31
Payment of fees for patients
referred from the National
Health Service: request for
financial support from the
Department of Health and
Social Security for training
grants for the Family
Planning Association;
experimental pilot scheme
seminar trainingfor nurses;
background papers,
correspondence and notes of
meetings
Committee on Safety of
Medicines and the Joint
Committee on Vaccination
and Immunisation: Joint SubCommittee on Adverse
Reactions to Vaccines and
Immunological Products;
minutes of meetings
Ministry of Health
MH 154/977
1975 Jan
01-1977
Dec 31
Vaccine associated
poliomyelitis: Harry Booth's
claim for negligence against
the Department of Health
and Social Security and the
County Borough of
Southport, Greater
Manchester for contracting
polio after the vaccination of
his child; submission to
Ministers and note of a
meeting with the Secretary of
State 1 December 1975;
justification for settlement
without admission of
negligence; court
proceedings and negotiation
of settlement
National Coal
Board
COAL 89/47
1974 Dec1989 Jan
Bentinck Colliery South
Nottinghamshire Area
National Coal
Board
COAL 26/507
01/11/1983 National Overtime Ban/Strike
November 1984: Creation of
30/04/1985 the Union of Democratic
Mineworkers [UDM]
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/18276
1933
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 367/19
1978 Aug
10 - 1982
Mar 29
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/3108
1900-1924
Nationality and
Naturalisation
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/11976
1938 1939
1951 Jan
01 - 1952
HO 405/19307
de Luca, Giovanni Filippo
(known as Jean de Luca),
from Italy. Resident in
London. Certificate AZ2973
issued 14 June 1933.
Landing and embarkation
card system: admissibility of
immigration records and
outline of current practice
Schimscheiwitz, Israel
(known as Israel Sunlight),
from Russia. Resident in
Manchester. Certificate
A11578 issued 10 July 1900.
EHRLICH, M aka ELLIS Date
of birth 03.03.1889
GUNSBERG, L N Date of
birth 21.03.1913
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/11572
Dec 31
1930
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/5014
1925
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/9193
1928
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/17449
1933
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/20405
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/15446
1935 Jan
01 - 1936
Dec 31
1932
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/34867
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/38081
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/10107
1929
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/21272
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/6485
1940 Jan
01 - 1948
Dec 31
1926
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/6365
Nationality and
HO 144/19604
1950 Jan
01 - 1951
Dec 31
1962 Jan
01 - 1963
Dec 31
Goldberg, Zelek Mordka (or
Marks Goldberg), from
Poland. Resident in London.
Certificate 18724 issued 9
September 1930.
Desbottes, Florimond Marie
Dominique, from France.
Resident in Woking.
Certificate 12223 issued 15
July 1925.
Finer, Jacob Joseph (or Jack
Finer), from Russia. Resident
in London. Certificate 15752
issued 16 February 1928.
Ungar, Juda (known as
Julius Engelstein), from
Poland. Resident in London.
Certificate AZ2757 issued 13
April 1933.
HEIMAN, M Date(s) of birth:
05.04.1880
Heilmann, Philipp, from
Germany. Resident in
London. Certificate AZ2365
issued 14 November 1932.
LANGIEWICZ, C Date of
birth: 05/05/1904
MARTIN, H G aka
KRESZOWER Date of birth
25/10/1918
Winzer, Charles Burton. No
Nationality. Resident in
London. Certificate 17443
issued 26 August 1929.
HITSCHMANN, R Date(s) of
birth: 08.11.1882
Cussin, Morris, from Russia.
Resident in Leeds. Certificate
14116 issued 7 December
1926.
01/01/1948 BALOGH, J F Date of Birth:
21.11.1916
31/12/1949
1934
Pearlberg, Hyman, from
Naturalisation
Russia. Resident in London.
Certificate AZ4467 issued 4
July 1934.
1930
Evans, Helen. Doubtful
Nationality. Resident in Port
Dinorwic, Carnarvonshire.
Certificate D.42 issued 27
November 1930.
01/01/1946 BROH, R Date of Birth:
02.01.1897
31/12/1947
1946 Jan
FLEISCHER, J Date of birth
01 - 1948
12.10.1910
Dec 31
1929
Claytman, Philip (or Philip
Clayton), from Russia.
Resident in London.
Certificate 17642 issued 29
October 1929.
1926-1927 Execution arrangements at
Pentonville to be
standardised
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/12773
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/3117
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/13637
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/10377
Prison
PCOM 8/186
Prison
PCOM 9/643
1948
Suspension of capital
punishment for murder
Prison
PCOM 9/745
1927-1948
MOREY Reginald: convicted
at Exeter 29 October 1927 of
murder and sentenced to
death (commuted)
Prison
PCOM 8/195
1928
Instructions for executioners
Prison
PCOM 8/184
1924
Board to support prisoner on
scaffold
Prison
PCOM 9/622
1929-1932
Regulations for governors,
sheriffs and executioners:
draft revision
Prison
PCOM 9/625
1934-1937
Mr A Allen, executioner:
adverse reports
Prison
PCOM 9/634
1946
Mr Thomas Pierrepoint,
executioner: not granted a
terminal gratuity on
retirement
Prison
PCOM 9/628
1940-1941
Mr Thomas Pierrepoint,
executioner: question of
medical fitness
Prison
PCOM 9/629
1942-1944
Mr Thomas Pierrepoint,
executioner: adverse report
Prison
PCOM 9/633
1946
Mr Albert Pierrepoint,
executioner: claims
misrepresentation in a
Sunday Pictorial article of 15
September 1946
Public
Prosecutions
DPP 2/289
1935
BOUSQUET, R H: Murder
and attempted murder
Public
Prosecutions
DPP 2/5198
1973 Jan
01 - 1973
Dec 31
KEPPLE, William: murder of
Maria Colwell (aged 7 years)
on 7 January 1973 in
Brighton, Sussex by inflicting
multiple injuries. Convicted
Public
Prosecutions
DPP 2/5197
1973 Jan
01 - 1973
Dec 31
KEPPLE, William: murder of
Maria Colwell (aged 7 years)
on 7 January 1973 in
Brighton, Sussex by inflicting
multiple injuries. Convicted
Royal
HO 144/19733
1934
ROYAL - TITLE ROYAL AND
ROYAL ARMS: Samuel
McCrudden and Co:
handkerchief and box with
photographs of King George
V and Queen Mary and
message from the King;
refused
Special Operations HS 9/259/1
Executive
1939-1946
Ugo CAMPAGNA, aka Ugo
MONTAGNA - born
03.08.1911
Special Operations HS 9/259/3
Executive
1939-1946
Alan Clark CAMPBELL born 27.02.1919, died
26.06.1944
Special Operations HS 9/259/5
Executive
1939-1946
Alexander Lockey
CAMPBELL - born
03.01.1912
Special Operations HS 9/259/7
Executive
1939-1946
A G R CAMPBELL - date of
birth not known, missing
22.11.1944
Treasury Solicitor
TS 60/112
1956 Jan
01 - 1986
Dec 31
Treasury Solicitor agents
abroad: Libya, France,
Federal Republic of
Germany, Nepal and Hong
Kong
War
HO 45/23737
1940-1943
WAR: Alexander Proctor, excaptain, Special Service
Officer in Russia 1914-1919;
inventor Tripod Harvesting
Equipment; letter to German
Ambassador offering
services to Hitler; detention