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Series
Admiralty: Courts Martial Registers
Catalogue reference: ADM 194
What's it about?
ADM 194
This series contains courts martial registers of the Portsmouth and Plymouth Divisions and several overseas battalions of the Royal Marines. These relate to courts of enquiry and civil power courts as well as to divisional, district, regimental,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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ADM 194
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty: Courts Martial Registers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1812-1978
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains courts martial registers of the Portsmouth and Plymouth Divisions and several overseas battalions of the Royal Marines. These relate to courts of enquiry and civil power courts as well as to divisional, district, regimental, garrison and naval courts martial.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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There are also registers of courts martial of Royal Naval and Royal Marines Officers and ratings, 1812-1815, and of Royal Naval and Royal Marine Officers and Warrant Officers, 1857-1915, continuing registers in ADM 13
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Admiralty, Naval Secretarys Department, 1872-1882
- Board of Admiralty, Permanent Secretarys Department, 1800-1877
- Board of Admiralty, Permanent Secretarys Department, 1882-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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365 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1968 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1903/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
2,470,001 records
Within the department: ADM
Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
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Admiralty: Courts Martial Registers
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