Medals… The Forgotten WW1 Medal Cards 3 Aug 20183 Aug 2018 Two forgotten sets of Great War Medal Cards. 1. The A.F. W 5100A Card 'APPLICATION BY A DEMOBILIZED OR DISCHARGED SOLDIER FOR BRITISH WAR MEDAL RIBAND' The A.F. W 5100A…
War Dead WW1 Soldiers Died In The Great War – Publication, Circulation and Reception – New Perspectives 16 Jul 201820 Jul 2018 Introduction I have already written about the War Office origins of Soldiers Died In The Great War (S.D.G.W.) and published evidence showing that the War Office was absolutely aware of…
Medals WW1 Campaign Medals – Signed, Sealed, Delivered and Yours? 19 Jun 2018 The use of wax seals to seal documents to prevent tampering goes back to the Middle Ages. It was therefore fascinating to see a surviving fragment of a wax…
Medals War Office Medals Branch 1917-1961: A Sourcebook 10 Jun 201810 Jun 2018 The Sourcebook 1917-1961 Clicking here takes you to the Sourcebook. Great War Related Records in the Sourcebook The Sourcebook is designed to add to our understanding of the issue of…
Military Museums “This is not a Museum for the Army; it is a Museum for the nation about the Army.” 23 May 2018 Words which described the purpose of the then new 'National Army Museum' and its appeal for funds to move to a new site in Chelsea. The spirit of these words…
Records John Reeve Brooke, first cousin of Rupert Brooke, Adjutant of the Red Cross Mobile Unit with Fabian Ware and first Registrar of the Graves Registration Commission 25 Apr 201825 May 2018 Early Life John Reeve Brooke was born in 1880 and was the son of a barrister also named John Reeve Brooke (1848-1932). The elder John Reeve Brooke was the son…
Visiting The Cemeteries War Graves Passes (Laissez-Passer) 1921 – 1961 and Subsidies for War Cemetery Visits 1920-1922 19 Apr 201819 Apr 2018 War Graves Passes were issued from 1921 (see The National Archives (TNA) HO 45/11080/419854 WAR: War grave passes for relatives of late members of H.M. Forces buried in France and…
Medals The 1924 Cinema Advertising Campaign to Encourage Great Veterans Who Had Not Received Their Medals To Claim Them 13 Apr 2018 Great War Medals – Cinema Adverts ‘...The bulk issues of the medals granted for the Great War have been completed, but a considerable number of individual claims are still being…
Plaques and Scrolls Great War Memorial Plaques: – Some New Sources/Information On Their Issue 10 Apr 201811 Apr 2018 The Woolwich produced Memorial Plaque of 136290 Sapper Aaron Hathaway of the 173rd Tunnelling Company. His C.W.G.C. entry can be found here. The form W.5080 (dated 20 October 1919) sent…
War Office Record Centre Arnside Arnside Street War Office Record Centre 1934-1940 (plus Percy House Schools 1919-1933) 15 Mar 201824 Jun 2020 How Army Service records were arranged before the 1940 Arnside fire is a topic of debate amongst people interested in the structure and arrangement of surviving WW1 Army service…
War Records Revealed 