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Research GuidesRoyal Navy: Officers' Service Records, First World War, and Confidential Reports, 1893-1943Military Records Information 79Service Records and Confidential Reports:Naval officers' service records are mainly in ADM 196 . A selection of pieces from ADM 196 are available to download from DocumentsOnline. Please see the website for further information. Access is free onsite at The National Archives. There is a main series for executive officers, and another for warrant officers. A service record usually gives:
There are several series of summaries of confidential reports: these give commanding officers' (often brutally candid) opinions of individuals' suitability for promotion. Indexes: some and noneUnfortunately, there is no overall name index to these records. Some volumes include an index: others have separate index volumes. If there are no name indexes, you will have to search the service records by date. To do this, you will need to find out either when the officer joined the navy, or his date of seniority or promotion to a particular rank. These dates can be found in the Navy List, in the alphabetical list of officers, or the seniority lists. Executive Officers: Service RecordsCadets, Midshipmen, Mates, Sub-Lieutenants, Lieutenant Commanders, Lieutenants, Commanders, Captains, Admirals This main series of service records provides details of an officer's entire career from Midshipman up. It cross refers to earlier series in ADM 196/36-56 . There are no name indexes: you need to get the date of attaining rank of Midshipman from the Navy List.
Engineer Officers
Executive Officers: Summaries of Confidential ReportsActing Mates and Mates Confidential reports on Acting Mates and Mates promoted to Lieutenant, and recording service as far as Lieutenant Commander.
Lieutenants and Sub Lieutenants
+ A sample index entry: Charles D Rickett volume 'B' 80. Convert the letter to a new reference using the table above. * Further service details for Lieutenants promoted 1895-1898 are in ADM 196/137 . This contains a name index. ** For supplementary Lieutenants and Sub- Lieutenants, promoted 1913 Jan -1914 June, see ADM 196/152 . This contains a name index. Commanders
There is also a union index to these four volumes in ADM 196/129 . A typical entry would be John Cresswell 1929, page 21. Check the date given against the above table. Admirals and Captains
Warrant Officers: Service Records (and Gunners' Confidential Reports)Boatswains, Carpenters, Gunners, Gunners (T), Instructors in Cookery, Signal Boatswains, Warrant Armourers, Warrant Electricians, Warrant Shipwrights, Warrant Stewards, Warrant Telegraphists, Warrant Writers The main series of service records. It cross-refers to earlier series in ADM 196/34-35
A sample index entry: J Bellis, Gunner, Volume 2, p 13, refers to ADM 195/156 p 13. Service records of warrant officers promoted to Lieutenant during 1918 Jan - 1931 June are in ADM 196/153 . This contains a name index. Gunners
Paymasters: Service Records and Confidential ReportsAssistant Clerks, Paymaster Cadets and Paymasters
Schoolmasters and Surgeons: Service RecordsSchoolmasters Service records of Schoolmasters who joined the Navy 1919-1926 are in ADM 196/177 . Surgeons
No Trace of a Service Record?It is possible to establish the basic outline of an officer's career by searching the Navy List. Also, it may be worth searching other parts of ADM 196 , and ADM 29/105-131 , for references to other service records for executive and warrant officers who served during the First World War, particularly those who joined the navy towards the end of the nineteenth century. Service Records after the First World WarThe service records and confidential reports detailed here do include details of officers who continued serving even beyond the Second World War. However, we do not as yet have service records for
Service records after these dates are closed, but information can be provided by the Ministry of Defence to officers, or to their next of kin (for a fee). For officers who have died contact: The Directorate of Personnel Support (Navy) For officers who are still living contact: Data Protection Cell (Navy) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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