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==Records==
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides-keywords/?show=keywords&keyword-letter=r National Archives Guides: A-Z index, letter R] Select guides relating to the Royal Navy, Royal Naval Reserve, Royal MarinesNaval Volunteer Reserve, Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Naval Division and etcRoyal Marines. Includes
**[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/royal-navy-ratings-1853-1928/ Royal Navy ratings 1853-1928]
**If a rating entered the Royal Navy after 1928, or a Royal Navy officer entered after May 1917, his record will still be with the Ministry of Defence. For details of how to access a record from the MOD, see the equivalent Fibiwiki section [[British Army#Army personnel serving after January 1921|British Army - Army personnel serving after January 1921]], and select information in the links provided relating to the Royal Navy.
**"Royal Naval Division Service Records 1914-1920"
:The RND transferred from the authority of the Admiralty to the War Office on 29 April 1916.
:*"WW1 Naval Casualties". Source unknown. Transcripts, no images. (A '''possibility''' (as there is an equivalent source for airmen) is Naval & Military Press transcriptions from Admiralty: Naval Casualties ADM 242 which are available as a DVD-ROM ''Sailors Died In The Great War. Royal Naval Other Ranks Deaths 1914-19'')
:*"WW1 Ships Lost At Sea, 1914-1919" sourced from the National Archives WW1 Ship Casualties Card Index series ADM 242/6.
*1911 Census is available on findmypast and Ancestry, both pay websites, and perhaps on other similar sites. For a helpful finding aid, based on the Ancestry databases, which includes census information for Royal Navy personnel overseas and in England and Wales, see [[Stations of British Army troops in India#1911 England and Wales Census|Stations of British Army troops in India - 1911 England and Wales Census]].
==Also see==
*[[Maritime Service]]
*[[Royal Air Force]]. Some records mentioned on this page may also include Royal Naval Air Service records.
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