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'''These records are also available, with images, on the [http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast] website.'''
==Records=====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:
Records of leave and duty pay from 1886-1950 are to be found in [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlag_1&cid=1-20-13#1-20-13 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 [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlag_1&cid=1-20-13-37#1-20-13-37 L/AG/20/13/37-45]. Finally, records of service pensions paid to retired officers in the UK from 1886-1968 are in [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlag_2&cid=1-1-21#1-1-21 L/AG/21/21] or [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlag_2&cid=1-1-11#1-1-11 L/AG/21/11]"<ref>British Raj List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2012-10/1350659800 post] dated 19 October 2012</ref>
==== Military Department Records====
*[http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000015.0x00030c Royal Indian Marine and Royal Indian Navy] '''IOR/L/MIL/16''' c1840 - c1947.
Indian Navy 1838-1859 are available, with images, on the [http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast] website.
==== Marine Department Records ====
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmar_5&cid=1-2#1-2 Marine Miscellaneous Records] '''IOR/L/MAR/C''' 1600-1879. These records include “personnel records of the Company's maritime service (at all levels of employment, but including particularly the appointment and services of commanders and mates of East Indiamen), the [[Bombay Marine]], the [[Indian Navy]], and the [[Bengal Pilot Service]]”. <ref>Martin Moir, A General Guide to the India office Records 1996</ref>
Bombay Marine and Pilot Service Appointments 1822-1832 are available, with images, on the [http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast] website.
===The National Archives, Kew===
*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4121123 Royal Indian Navy: War Diaries] '''ADM 199/769''' 1943
==Marine Survey of India==
