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Admiralty: Officers' Service Records (Series III)
Catalogue reference: ADM 196
What's it about?
ADM 196
Officers' records giving dates of entry into and discharge from the service. They contain such information as dates of birth, rank, seniority, date of appointment, orders and commissions, awards, distinctions, examinations etc. and include...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ADM 196
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty: Officers' Service Records (Series III)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1756-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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Officers' records giving dates of entry into and discharge from the service. They contain such information as dates of birth, rank, seniority, date of appointment, orders and commissions, awards, distinctions, examinations etc. and include particulars of Royal Marine Officers. Most volumes are indexed.
Digital copies of Royal Navy officers’ service records 1756-1931 can be searched and downloaded.b The index volumes within ADM 196 are also available as digital microfilm.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Except for the index volumes, each entry within a volume has been treated as a separate item for cataloguing and digitisation. The item numbering has been generated automatically for system reasons; in most instances the item numbers do not appear on the documents themselves. Due to errors in the original microfilming and digitisation processes, some items may be numbered out of sequence.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Indexes for Royal Marines officers' registers of service are in ADM 313
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 179 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Available in digital format unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 1969 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)
- Series is accruing
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Copies of a nominal index to ADM 196/117-124, which relates mainly to the service records of Royal Navy commissioned officers who served in the First World War, are available in the reading rooms, The National Archives, Kew.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1905/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
2,473,747 records
Within the department: ADM
Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
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Admiralty: Officers' Service Records (Series III)
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