Justin Nash – War Records Revealed

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…

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?

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.”

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…

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

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…