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Admiralty: Officers' Service Records (Series III)

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Reference	ADM 196
Title	Admiralty: Officers' Service Records (Series III)
Date	1756-1966
Description	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 1756-1931can be searched and downloaded.b The index volumes within ADM 196 are also available as digital microfilm.
Arrangement	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.
Related material	Indexes are in ADM 313
Held by	The National Archives, Kew
Legal status	Public Record(s)
Language	English
Physical description	179 files and volumes
Access conditions	Available in digital format unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition	from 1969 Ministry of Defence
Accruals	Series is accruing
Unpublished finding aids	Copies of a nominal index to ADM 196/117-124, which relates mainly to the service records of Royal Navy commissioned officers who served in the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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