Catalogue description Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS): Ships' Cards

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Details of WO 435
Reference: WO 435
Title: Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS): Ships' Cards
Description:

This series contains 18 boxes holding just over 9,500 cards detailing individual Maritime Royal Artillery gunners allocated to a particular ship during the Second World War. The cards cover around 6,500 ships. Where the ship is not registered as British the nationality of the Allied ship has been noted.

This series complements the larger set of record cards in WO 436, which record the sea service details for Royal Artillery DEMS Gunners.

Date: 1939-1945
Arrangement:

The records are arranged in alphabetical order by name of ship
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

War Office, 1857-1964
Physical description: 18 box(es)
Dimensions: 20cm x 13cm
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2023 Ministry of Defence
Administrative / biographical background:

The records were created by the War Office during the Second World War

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