Military recipients of the Albert Medal
What was the Albert Medal? A Royal Warrant of 8 March 1866 announced the institution of a decoration to award “daring and heroic actions performed by mariners and others in danger of perishing, by reason…
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How to research an award of the Military Medal (MM)
What was the Military Medal? The Military Medal was introduced by a Royal Warrant dated 25 March 1916 which was published in the London Gazette of 5 April 1916. The text of the Warrant reads,…
How to interpret a campaign medal index card
How to interpret a medal index card The medal index cards are not easy to interpret. Here are some tips that will help you make sense of a card you have found. The standard card…
The campaign medal index cards
The campaign medal rolls are a vital source of information. The index cards were the original aid for locating a man’s entry or entries in the issuing rolls. What are they? See the campaign medal…
Military hospitals in the British Isles 1914-1918
The flow of casualties from the various theatres of war soon overwhelmed the existing medical facilities in Great Britain and Ireland. Many civilian hospitals and large buildings were turned over to military use. This listing…
Campaign medal records
What can I find from medal records? Every soldier qualified for at least one campaign medal if he left his native shore to serve overseas.The medal records generally do not have age, address, next of…
The campaign medal rolls
The campaign medal rolls are a vital source of information, but the degree of detail they include varies. What are they? The rolls are large, heavy, bound volumes. The originals are held at the National…
Medal roll theatre codes
The medal index cards and medal rolls refer to codes that tell in which theatre of war the soldier first served after leaving his native shore. For disembarkations up to 31 December 1915 These codes generally…
Hospital admissions and discharge records
Availability of records Wouldn’t it be great to be able to find records of a soldier’s admission to or discharge from a hospital? Sadly in most cases it will not be possible as the records have…
David Walliams’ great grandfather – the full military story
Many visitors to this site will have seen the episode of the “Who do you think you are?”series featuring David Walliams. Produced by Wall to Wall, it was first broadcast by BBC on 19 October…