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:"Royal Naval Division Service Records 1914-1920"
:The RND transferred from the authority of the Admiralty to the War Office on 29 April 1916.
*Ancestry (pay website) includes a database "UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960"<ref>[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60931 UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960] Ancestry (located in BMD records)</ref> (located in BMD records). This database consists mainly of Naval records, sourced from the National Archives, Kew.
*Ancestry released 3 October 2018, the first stage of records in the database "UK, WWI Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923",<ref>[https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61588 "UK, WWI Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923"] Ancestry.</ref> (located in Military), which are index records, with the images available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3,<ref>[https://www.fold3.com/browse/250/h-gceWkCT "UK, WWI Pension Ledgers, 1914-1923"] fold3.</ref> (which requires an Ancestry All Access subscription, or a separate fold3 subscription). The first released records relate to '''Naval''' and '''Mercantile Marine''' explained in the WFA article [http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/october-2018/release-of-naval-and-mercantile-marine-pension-records-by-ancestry/ "Release of Naval and Mercantile Marine Pension Records by Ancestry"] October 2018.
*[http://www.fleetairarm.com/royal-navy-royal-marines-services-records.aspx Royal Navy & Royal Marines Service Records held at the Fleet Air Arm Museum]. The FAA Museum, part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, is located at the Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, Somerset (also known as HMS Heron). The FAA Museum generally does not hold records of service for those who enlisted after about 1925, which are still held in the custody of the Ministry of Defence.
