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**[http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RINVR_officers.html Royal Indian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RINVR) Officers 1939-1945]
**[http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RINVR_officers.html Royal Indian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RINVR) Officers 1939-1945]
**[http://www.unithistories.com/officers/BRNVR_officers.html  Burma Naval Volunteer Reserve (BRNVR) Officers 1939-1945]
**[http://www.unithistories.com/officers/BRNVR_officers.html  Burma Naval Volunteer Reserve (BRNVR) Officers 1939-1945]
== Related articles ==
*[[Bengal Pilot Service]]
*[[Bombay Marine]]
*[[Ships of the Bombay Marine and Indian Navy]]
==Royal Navy==
The Royal Navy is the British Navy
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/atoz/r.htm  National Archives Guides:Browse our research guidance , letter R] Select Royal Navy and Royal Navy Personnel. Includes
**[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/royalnavyrating1853-1923.htm Looking for records of a rating in the Royal Navy 1853-1923]
*[http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html  Naval: Late 18th, 19th and early 20th Century Naval and Naval Social History Index] from [http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/          pbenyon.plus.com]
===Navy List===
*For details of '''online''' editions of the ''Navy List'' issued in the [[First World War]] and [[Second World War]], see [[Military periodicals online#Navy List|Military periodicals online-Navy List]]
* The pay website Ancestry has a broken range of editions of the [http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2406 ''Navy List''] from 1888 to 1970. It is not known whether these are a copy of the original ''Army List'', or transcribed data.


===Medal Rolls===
===Medal Rolls===
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==Marine Survey of India==
==Marine Survey of India==
The Marine Survey Department was established as a separate Department in 1874. Previously this work was carried out by naval officers.
The Marine Survey Department was established as a separate Department in 1874. Previously this work was carried out by naval officers.
== Related articles ==
*[[Royal Navy]]
*[[Bengal Pilot Service]]
*[[Bombay Marine]]
*[[Ships of the Bombay Marine and Indian Navy]]


==External Links==
==External Links==
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*[https://archive.org/details/generalreporton04survgoog ''General Report on the Operations of the Marine Survey of India from the commencement in 1874, to the end of the Official Year 1874-75''] by Commander A Dundas Taylor (late I N) 1876 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/generalreporton04survgoog ''General Report on the Operations of the Marine Survey of India from the commencement in 1874, to the end of the Official Year 1874-75''] by Commander A Dundas Taylor (late I N) 1876 Archive.org
*[http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/India/RIN/index.html ''The Royal Indian Navy 1939-1945''] by Instructor Lieutenant D.J.E. Collins, B.A.L.T. Indian Navy. 1964. Part of the series  ''Official History of the Indian Armed Forces In the Second World War'' by the Combined Inter-Services Historical Section (India & Pakistan). From "HyperWar: World War II on the World Wide Web"
*[http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/India/RIN/index.html ''The Royal Indian Navy 1939-1945''] by Instructor Lieutenant D.J.E. Collins, B.A.L.T. Indian Navy. 1964. Part of the series  ''Official History of the Indian Armed Forces In the Second World War'' by the Combined Inter-Services Historical Section (India & Pakistan). From "HyperWar: World War II on the World Wide Web"
*[https://archive.org/details/generalreporton04survgoog ''General Report on the Operations of the Marine Survey of India from the commencement in 1874, to the end of the Official Year 1874-75''] by Commander A Dundas Taylor (late I N) 1876 Archive.org


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 13:50, 6 April 2014

In 1830 the Bombay Marine was renamed the Indian Navy, based at Bombay. The Indian Navy, a combatant force, co-operated with the Royal Navy in policing Asian waters and also carried out regular marine surveys. In 1863 it was disbanded 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. [1]

FIBIS resources

These records are also available, with images, on the findmypast website.

India Office records at the British Library

FIBIS Chairman Peter Bailey wrote the following about officers in the Second World War, but his advice is generally applicable:

"Generally speaking the Personal Files of those who served as officers in the RIN during the Second World War, are to be found in the India Office Records at the British Library under Catalogue Number L/MIL/16/10 et sequ. However, since there is some chance that the persons concerned may still be alive, you may have to show proof that you are the person concerned or that they are no longer with us and that you are directly related to them. Some records of service for Seamen as well as officers may be available in L/MIL/16/1-9 which cover the period c1840-1947 and an index is available on the open shelves.

Records of leave and duty pay from 1886-1950 are to be found in L/AG/20/13 and leave accounts and records of the payment of gratuities for officers released in the UK from 1945-47 may be found in L/AG/20/13/37-45. Finally, records of service pensions paid to retired officers in the UK from 1886-1968 are in L/AG/21/21 or L/AG/21/11"[2]

Military Department Records

Indian Navy 1838-1859 are available, with images, on the findmypast website.

Marine Department Records

Bombay Marine and Pilot Service Appointments 1822-1832 are available, with images, on the findmypast website.

Second World War

Medal Rolls

Free downloads of the Naval Medal Rolls are available from the National Archives website, or the same information is available on the pay website Ancestry. See the page Medal Rolls for details.

Marine Survey of India

The Marine Survey Department was established as a separate Department in 1874. Previously this work was carried out by naval officers.

Related articles

External Links

Historical Books Online

References

  1. Access to Archives Royal Indian Marine/Navy IOR/L/MIL/16
  2. British Raj List post dated 19 October 2012
  3. Martin Moir, A General Guide to the India office Records 1996
  4. Thread from Victorian Wars Forum dated August/September 2008