Series 7 - 1320 [Communications - Signals, Telegrams and Cables]

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1320 [Communications - Signals, Telegrams and Cables]

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    CA ON00093 81/520; 2010/15-7

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    • 1943-1945, 1962-1966 (Creation)

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    Textual records in Boxes 80-82

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    The Canadian Naval Mission Overseas (CNMO) was established on 15 May 1944 under Vice-Admiral Percy Nelles, and dealt with weapons, equipment, personnel, policy and plans, and public relations. It negotiated with the British for ships, including aircraft carriers and cruisers. The end of the war with Japan saw the CNMO's numbers reduced and it subsequently was absorbed into the Canadian Joint Staff Mission (London).

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    (1832-1964)

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    In the middle ages the Navy was managed by the King in Council, sometimes, after 1360, through an official known variously as the Lord Admiral, High Admiral, Admiral of England or, from the early seventeenth century, Lord High Admiral, while day-to-day administration was by subordinate keepers or clerks of the king's ships. The Lord High Admiral generally commanded the Navy in person or by deputy and was responsible for policy, strategy, and fighting personnel. He also had legal functions as president of the High Court of Admiralty, from the sixteenth century usually exercised by deputy, such deputies becoming in 1628 independent judges of Admiralty.
    In 1546 the Navy Board was established and was made responsible, under the Lord High Admiral and subsequently under the Board of Admiralty, for materials, non-combatant personnel, warrant officers and ratings and the civil administration of the Navy. In the seventeenth century the office of Lord High Admiral was on occasions not filled, the post being put into commission and its duties carried out by a Board of Admiralty, an arrangement which from 1708, apart from one brief period, became permanent. In 1832 the Navy Board was abolished and the civil administration passed under the direct control of the Board of Admiralty. On 1 April 1964 the Admiralty was absorbed in the unified Ministry of Defence, where it became the Navy Department.

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    Canadian Forces Headquarters (CFHQ) was functionally organized on 1 August 1964. CFHQ existed as an organizational entity until its integration with National Defence Headquarters on 15 October 1974.

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    Series consists of Canadian Naval Mission Overseas (CNMO) and British Admiralty secret signal series during the Second World War, as well as Canadian Forces Headquarters (CFHQ) CANGENS for 1962-1966. The CMNO signal series included CANOPS, CANMO and CRYSTAL BALL. Whereas CANOPS reported on operational and other movements of HMC ships operated by the British Admiralty during 1944-1945, CANMO reported on general information regarding Operations OVERLORD (code name for the Allied landing on the coast of Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944) and NEPTUNE (title given to the actual landing phase of Operation OVERLORD) during 1944-1945. CRYSTAL BALL was concerned with the present and future movements of Canadian ships in 1945. The British Admiralty signal series included NATEL, OPTEL and STRATREP, and they reported information on operation in all theatres during 1943-1945.

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