The role of the Defence Administrative Office was to determine policy and procedures for administrative matters dealt with by the Department of Defence and to provide civil administration support to the ANZUK Force.  The records of the Defence Administrative Office are contained in the series AWM216, Defence Administrative Office (DAO) Records. (For further information see the series description for AWM216.)  

This series contains the correspondence registers, both inward and outward, classified and unclassified, for AWM216, Records of Defence Administrative Office (DAO), Singapore.  The registers provide the following information - date of correspondence, senders no., sender, subject, action taken and date of that action, and the file upon which the correspondence was placed.
 
The series consists of the following items:
 
     1    Classified Document Register [inwards correspondence],      24 September 1971 - 23 December 1972
 
     2    Register of Letters [inwards correspondence], 19 December   1972 - 2 May 1973
 
     3    Register of Letters [inwards correspondence], 3 May 1973 -  16 November 1973
 
     4    Classified Document Register Inward Correspondence
          Confidential and Secret, 11 May 1972 - 28 March 1973
  
     5    Classified Document Register Outward Correspondence         Confidential and above, 16 May 1972 - 31 December 1973  
     
     6    Unclassified Document Register, 12 December 1974 - 13 April 1976
 
     7    Inwards Signals Register, 8 January 1971 - 16 November 1973
Quantity in agency custody
0.2m held by CA 616, Australian War Memorial