Letter from Hankey to Sir Leslie Monson on 24th November 1971 - Relief Effort
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Title
Letter from Hankey to Sir Leslie Monson on 24th November 1971 - Relief Effort
FCO 63/881 item 22 page 123
Subject
Relief/aid
Description
Discusses the challenges of relief effort: finance (high cost of commisioning relief flight, £10k of FCO disaster funding in event of disaster only); provision of supplies (frigate vs neighbouring islands; plan).
Handwritten update dated 25/11/1971
Handwritten update dated 25/11/1971
Creator
FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK)
Publisher
The National Archives (UK)
Date
24th November 1971
Contributor
H A A Hankey
Rights
These files are made available by The National Archives via Discovery, the full entry for this item can be found here.
The full item FCO 63/881 was digitised using funds from the Curating Crises project.
These files are hosted in the Curating Crises database with permission from The National Archives under the copyright terms presented here.
The full item FCO 63/881 was digitised using funds from the Curating Crises project.
These files are hosted in the Curating Crises database with permission from The National Archives under the copyright terms presented here.
Format
JPG
Language
English
Type
Letter
Identifier
Curating_Crises_#372
FCO 63/ 881
Coverage
The 1971 volcanic eruption of La Soufrière St Vincent.
Letter Item Type Metadata
Date Sent
24th November 1971
To
Sir Leslie Monson
From
H A A Hankey
Files
Collection
Citation
FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK), “Letter from Hankey to Sir Leslie Monson on 24th November 1971 - Relief Effort,” Curating Crises, accessed March 6, 2026, https://curatingcrises.omeka.net/items/show/372.
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