Non-UK nationals may also be issued with a Reader's Ticket. In the records you will find details of postings in and out, losses, general info which will help you build a picture of your man and even obtain such information as his Service Number. This latter gem opens many official doors. On arrival at the PRO, obtain or produce your ticket and make your way upstairs to the first floor. You may only take a pencil and yellow writing paper in, but you may take a laptop computer or typewriter, or dictating machine, as there are special bays reserved for these.
All seats have power and comfortable computer type chairs.
Appropriate stationery may be purchased from the shop on the ground floor. Upstairs, turn left and go through the double glass doors, left again and through the automatic door. On the left are a series of wooden counters manned by PRO staff who will issue you with your bleeper associated with a seat number. Discover the documents you want to read by examining the summaries on the first floor lobby, as you exit the reading room these are immediately on the left. As soon as your first document arrives, you will be bleeped, and then you can select three more.