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Catalogue description Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Rolls of Honour, Wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945
| Reference: | BT 339 |
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| Title: | Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Rolls of Honour, Wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 |
| Description: |
Volumes which lists the dead, and missing presumed dead, from the ranks of the merchant marine fleets during the wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. |
| Date: | 1866-1970 |
| Arrangement: |
Each volume presents surnames of the deceased in alphabetical order. Pieces 5 and 6 concern the War of 1914-1918. |
| Related material: |
See also the Merchant Seamen prisoner of war records in BT 373 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
General Register and Record Office of Seamen, 1835-1872 Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, 1872-1992 |
| Physical description: | 8 volume(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
In 2000 Registry of Shipping and Seamen |
| Accumulation dates: | 1866-1970 |
| Selection and destruction information: | All existing rolls of honour have been preserved. |
| Accruals: | No future accruals expected |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen was created in 1872 and became the Registry of Shipping and Seamen in 1992. Details of sub-departmental administration concerning these records have not survived. |
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