Catalogue description Indian Navy Service Statements

This record is held by British Library: Asian and African Studies

Details of IOR/L/MIL/16/1-9
Reference: IOR/L/MIL/16/1-9
Title: Indian Navy Service Statements
Description:

The service statements cover European and Eurasian personnel and include not only regular officers but also warrant and petty officers, clerks, engineers and other ranks. Vols 1 to 6 relate to RIM/RIN personnel, Vol 7 is a register of officers and other ranks of the Royal Navy seconded to the RIN during World War II, and Vols 8-9 are service statements forwarded to London when an RIM officer took leave to Europe within the period 1885-1909. In Vols 1-6 the amount of detail given is generally considerable including (in Vols 1-5)

 

a person's date and place of birth. It should be noted that the covering dates given for each volume in the summary list below are very approximate - they are not necessarily true for every entry in a volume.

 

The lists below provide the following information:- officer's covering dates of service, highest rank attained by officer within period covered, volume number and folio numbers.

Date: c1840 - c1947
Related material:

1) Published lists (mainly quarterly) of the Bombay Marine/HM Indian Marine/Royal Indian Marine/Royal Indian Navy, 1870-1948 [L/MIL/17/9/1-291]

 

2) Military Collections relating to the appointment and service of Indian Naval Service officers [L/MIL/7: Collections 21, 50, 92, 260, 371]

 

3) World War II service files, mainly for officers of the RINR/RINVR [L/MIL/16/10-2010]

 

4) Records of naval furlough pay, gratuities and service pensions, also pensions paid to dependents [in series L/AG/20, 21, 23, 26]

 

L/MIL/16/3-6 and 8-9 contain nominal indexes

Held by: British Library: Asian and African Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Government of India

Physical description: 9 volumes
Access conditions:

No restrictions

Administrative / biographical background:

Until 1863 the Government of India had its own combatant navy based at Bombay, entitled the Indian Navy (previous to 1830 it had been called the Bombay Marine). The Indian Navy was responsible with the Royal Navy for patrolling Asian waters and it also carried out regular marine surveys. In 1863 it was abolished and replaced by two non-combatant marine services based in Bombay and Bengal respectively. In 1877 it was decided to combine the Bombay and Bengal Marines into a new combatant service entitled HM Indian Marine, with Western (Bombay) and Eastern (Calcutta) Divisions - HM Indian Marine was renamed the Royal Indian Marine in 1892 and the Royal Indian Navy in 1934. The records listed below relate mainly to service in HM Indian Marine and its successors (to 1947) but, where appropriate, they also give details of an officer's previous service in the non-combatant Bombay Marine and in the pre-1863 Indian Navy.

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