Series
Admiralty: Royal Naval Air Service: Registers of Officers' Services
Catalogue reference: ADM 273
What's it about?
ADM 273
This series consists of service details of officers serving in the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) between August 1914 and April 1918, when the RNAS merged with the Royal Flying Corps to become the Royal Air Force. Described at item level.
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 273
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty: Royal Naval Air Service: Registers of Officers' Services
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1906-1918
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of service details of officers serving in the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) between August 1914 and April 1918, when the RNAS merged with the Royal Flying Corps to become the Royal Air Force. Described at item level.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
They appear to be arranged in service number order rather than alphabetically or by the date of entry into the Service. Each volume however contains an alphabetical index to officers whose details are within each volume. It is also possible that certain individuals may have more than one entry in the registers.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For Air Ministry, Department of the Master-General of Personnel, Officers' Service Records, see AIR 76
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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)
- Board of Admiralty, Air Department, Royal Naval Air Service, 1914-1916
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 31 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 75 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 1985 Ministry of Defence
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1981/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: ADM
Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
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Admiralty: Royal Naval Air Service: Registers of Officers' Services