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Admiralty: Royal Naval Air Service: Registers of Officers' Services

Description and record details

Reference ADM 273
Title Admiralty: Royal Naval Air Service: Registers of Officers' Services
Date 1906-1918
Description

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.

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.

Related material

For Air Ministry, Department of the Master-General of Personnel, Officers' Service Records, see AIR 76

Held by The National Archives, Kew
Legal status Public Record(s)
Language

English

Creator

Board of Admiralty, Air Department, Royal Naval Air Service, 1914-1916

Physical description 31 volume(s)
Access conditions Subject to 75 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition

from 1985 Ministry of Defence