Catalogue description Admiralty: Courts Martial Registers

This series contains courts martial registers of the Portsmouth and Plymouth Divisions and several overseas battalions of the Royal Marines. These relate to courts of enquiry and civil power courts as well as to divisional, district, regimental, garrison and naval courts martial.

There are also registers of courts martial of Royal Naval and Royal Marines Officers and ratings, 1812-1815, and of Royal Naval and Royal Marine Officers and Warrant Officers, 1857-1915, continuing registers in ADM 13

Board of Admiralty, Naval Secretarys Department, 1872-1882

Board of Admiralty, Permanent Secretarys Department, 1800-1877

Board of Admiralty, Permanent Secretarys Department, 1882-1964

From 1968 Ministry of Defence