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  • Imperial War Graves Commission Index To Cemetery And Memorial Registers Of Those Who Fell In The Great War – List of Resources
  • Commonwealth War Grave Casualty Archive and other C.W.G.C. WW1 Records: Glossary, Key and Articles
  • The War Office, Records Section, Percy House Schools, Isleworth and Arnside Street, Walworth, S.E.17 (Plus Postscript: Droitwich and saving the ‘Burnt Records’/supplementary records from the Ministry of Pensions (1940-1945))
  • Medal Cards: Understanding the file numbers used by Medal Branch in the Cards/Rolls
  • 30,000 Medals a Day – The Army Medal Offices (A.G.10/A.G. 4, M.S. 3 and A.M.O.) 1917-1961 – A Source Book
  • The Chelsea Hospital Archive of Soldiers’ Discharge Documents 1913-1921
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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…
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…

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