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Obtaining Service Records of Commissioned Officers
in the Royal Navy or RNVR

       Commissioned officers who entered the service before or during 1924:

The National Archives Office, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.

Telephone: 0208-876 3444.     Web: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

You can also search and download service records online from the National Archives:

Commissioned officers who entered the service between 1924 and 1971:

An information pack is available from:


Navy Records Office, TNT Archives Service, Tetron Point, William Nadin Way

Swaddlincote, South Derbyshire DE11 0BB

Telephone: 01283 227913       E-mail: navysearchpgrc@tnt.co.uk

Or the application form can be downloaded as a PDF from this page: https://www.gov.uk/requests-for-personal-data-and-service-records


Please note that a £30 search fee is charged.
This is waived for applications by the serviceman himself, his wife or partner and his widow.

        Service records from 1972 onwards:

CN Pers, Disclosure Cell, MP G-2, Room 48, West Battery, Whale Island, Portsmouth PO2 8DX

Telephone Nos. 023 92 628667/8666/8671/8670/8654


Please note that where an officer had previously served as a rating both service records as rating and officer will be supplied.
There is no need to make separate applications.

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