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Series
Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS): Ships' Cards
Catalogue reference: WO 435
What's it about?
WO 435
This series contains 18 boxes holding just over 9,500 cards detailing individual Maritime Royal Artillery gunners allocated to a particular ship during the Second World War. The cards cover around 6,500 ships. Where the ship is not registered as...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- WO 435
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Title (The name of the record)
- Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS): Ships' Cards
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1939-1945
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains 18 boxes holding just over 9,500 cards detailing individual Maritime Royal Artillery gunners allocated to a particular ship during the Second World War. The cards cover around 6,500 ships. Where the ship is not registered as British the nationality of the Allied ship has been noted.
This series complements the larger set of record cards in WO 436, which record the sea service details for Royal Artillery DEMS Gunners.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The records are arranged in alphabetical order by name of ship
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- War Office, 1857-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 18 box(es)
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 20cm x 13cm
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2023 Ministry of Defence
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The records were created by the War Office during the Second World War
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17108999/
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Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS): Ships' Cards
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