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Royal Naval Patrol Service Association

 

 

 

 

 

Further Information on personnel: The RNPS Association holds no records about individual members' service or medal entitlements.

The main record of service is the form S-459 which records name, next of kin, postings, rating, etc. and is a potted account of each member's entire service. The original document was handed over to the member on discharge and there is no duplicate on file. Only brief details are likely to be recorded in the Ministry of Defence archives and so this prime record is the main source of any detail and only likely to be found amongst the member's personal possessions.
 

 

 

Limited information may be available from archived sources, which depending of joining of the person enquired about.
 

 

 

For commissioned officers and non-commissioned ranks entering during or before 1924:

The National Archives Office,
Ruskin Avenue,
Kew,
Richmond,
Surrey TW9 4DU.
Telephone: 0208-876 3444.
Fax: 0208-878 8905.
Website: National Archives

 

 

 

For commisioned officers entering between 1924 and 1939:

Navy Records Office
TNT Archive Services
Tetron Point
William Nadin Way
Swaddlincote
South Derbyshire
DE11 0BB
Telephone: 01283 227913
FAX: 01283 227942
navysearchpgrc@tnt.co.uk

 

 

 

For commissioned officers entering from 1939 onwards and non-commissioned ranks entering from 1924 onwards:

DNCM DPAFOI
Room 109
Victory Building, PP72
HM Naval Base Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO1 3LT
Telephone: 02392-723114, 720014, 727531, 727381 and 727470

 

 

 

 

The Ministry of Defence will normally only release the information from service records to the subjects of those records or to their next of kin; MOD may charge a search fee, which cannot be refunded.

 

 

 

 

Claims for Medals should be addressed to:

Armed Forces Personnel
Administration Agency
(Joint Personnel Administration Centre)
MOD Medal Office
Building 250
Royal Air Force Innsworth
Gloucester
GL3 1HW

The MOD Medal Office enquiry line is: Tel: 0141 224 3600

Veterans UK site offers a considerable amount of information and advice about all aspects relating to veterans including service records, pensions, medal claims and other veterans issues.

Copies of the Silver Badge are usually available from the militaria dealers Dixons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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