The personal records of Royal Marines who enlisted into the service during or after 1925, approximately, are held by.

Director Naval Career Management
Disclosure Cell
West Battery
Whale Island
Portsmouth
PO2 8DX

Tel: 023 9262 8672/8781/8654/8779

MEDALS

MOD Medal Office
Armed Forces Personnel Administration Agency
Building 250
RAF Innsworth
Gloucester
GL3 1HW

Telephone: 0141 224 3600
Website: www.medals.mod.uk

ROYAL MARINES HISTORIAN

Maj Mark Bentinck
Naval Historical Branch
No 24 Store
PP20
Main Road
HM Naval Base
Portsmouth
PO1 3LU

Telephone: 023 9272 0010

E-Mail: rmhistorian@a.dii.mod.uk

The Ministry of Defence will normally only release the information given in service records to the subjects of those records, or to their next of kin, if deceased; and it may charge a search fee, which cannot be refunded.
For Royal Marines who entered the service before 1930, approximately, records can be found in:

The Public Record Office
Ruskin Avenue
Kew
Richmond
Surrey TW9 4DU
Telephone: 020 8187 63444
Fax: 020 8187 88905
Website: http://www.pro.gov.uk