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Series
Admiralty and Ministry of Defence: Royal Marine Office: Correspondence and Papers
Catalogue reference: ADM 201
What's it about?
ADM 201
A very varied collection of entry books, registers, note-books, papers and collections of statistics, the main groups being as follows: Entry books of correspondence with the Divisions and Barracks, and correspondence and circulars from the...
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ADM 201
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty and Ministry of Defence: Royal Marine Office: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1761-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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A very varied collection of entry books, registers, note-books, papers and collections of statistics, the main groups being as follows:
- Entry books of correspondence with the Divisions and Barracks, and correspondence and circulars from the Inspector General of Marines, 1831 to 1899.
- Registers and note-books of correspondence, commissions, administrative memoranda, promotions, regulations and orders, and volumes containing notes on the Special Services Brigade, the Royal Fleet Reserve, and on Divisional amalgamations, 1821 to 1923.
- Twenty volumes of bound up correspondence, on various topics, including establishment matters, medals, pay, savings bank, Portsmouth Garrison, the Royal Marine Artillery, Royal Marine Reserve, Greenwich Hospital Pensions and Prisons, 1798 to 1908.
- Eleven volumes of papers, 1840 to 1902, concerning the Ashanti, China, Esquimault, Japan and Suakin battalions.
- Twenty 'Statistical Packets', 1761 to 1924, mostly concerning establishment matters, promotion and returns of numbers.
- Twenty-seven papers of returns of the State of the Corps, 1869 to 1928.
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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)
- Ministry of Defence, Department of the Chief of Naval Personnel, Royal Marines, 1964-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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332 bundles, files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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 1987 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/C1910/
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