Update: Report of Proceedings from Commanding Officers

I have added from the British National Archive the following Admiralty documents:

ADM 267/ 83 REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS FROM COMMANDING OFFICER, HMS ILLUSTRIOUS - 1941 

ADM 199/810: REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS FROM COMMANDING OFFICER, HMS FORMIDABLE - 1941

While these reports are not as accurate as the later Admiralty Damage Reports (Bomb and Shell), they do provide details not reproduced there as well as an insight to the process of compiling an accurate representation of action events and damage details.

They also help explain the errors and discrepancies in many accounts of the above actions. Many academics and authors have placed their full faith in these initial reports, made days after the events, and did not examine the more considered and studied Admiralty damage reports compiled up to a year afterwards.