WW1 War Medals (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Tuesday, August 28, 2012, 05:44 (4466 days ago) @ m p griffiths

"'If they received the Victory Medal - wouldn't they have survived?' not good on military history"

NO, not necessarily. The main six Campaign medals such as this were actually awarded from 1919 onwards, in some cases to men "no longer living" #.

Some of these Medals referred to different time periods/parts of the War, whereas some such as the "Victory Medal 1914-1919" were more all-encompassing, essentially everyone who "served on a military unit in an operational theatre" earned the Victory Medal, usually alongside the "British War Medal 1914-1920" that could also be earned by civilians. Again the LLT site has it all including colour medal photos.
http://1914-1918.net/grandad/themedals.htm

Dependant on the individual's length of Service the Medal Card can be quite brief or an overcrowded "mess" of various handwritten entries, notes, symbols etc, almost a secret code in places !. However it's usually easy to see whether the man was wounded or even killed, as the righthand "remarks" box would have "K.I.A" for Killed in Action, for example.
http://1914-1918.net/grandad/mic.htm

# Sadly many serving men died after the War, some many years later, such as from major wounds that never healed properly(no plastic surgery or antibiotics then), or lungs damaged from gas poisoning, and so on. Many more died from the Spanish flu pandemic in 1919. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWinfluenzia.htm

Hope this helps, if not the Long Long Trail site will probably tell us.