English WW1 Military Service records (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Sunday, March 16, 2008, 12:15 (6104 days ago) @ Speedwell_Blue

Not yet fully online - as far as I can tell - so a visit to Kew is probably required...

suspects include:-

Medal card of Meek, Alfred J
Corps: Gloucestershire Regiment
Regiment No: 51942
Rank: Private
date 1914-1920
Cat ref WO 372/13

Medal card of Meek, James A
Corps: London Regiment
Regiment No: 5210
Rank: Private...
Date 1914-1920
Cat ref WO 372/13

Medal card of Meek, James
Corps: Monmouthshire Regiment
Regiment No: 2359
Rank: Private...
Date 1914-1920
Cat ref WO 372/13

Medal card of Meek, James
Corps: Royal Garrison Artillery
Regiment No: 91524
Rank: Gunner
Date 1914-1920
Ref WO 372/13

Medal card of Meek, James
Corps: Royal Garrison Artillery
Regiment No: 82519
Rank: Gunner
date 1914-1920
Ref WO 372/13

Medal card of Meek, James
Corps: Royal Field Artillery
Regiment No: 465799
Rank: Corporal
Date 1914-1920
Ref WO 372/13

Medal card of Meek, James
Corps: Royal Field Artillery
Regiment No: 44182
Rank: Gunner...
Date 1914-1920
Ref WO 372/ 13

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/?source=home

1. In 1985, the Public Record Office, now The National Archives, began microfilming the alphabetical card index to the First World War Army medal rolls. Having reviewed the material, we decided to microfilm the fronts of the cards where all the significant information is held. The National Archives now makes that index available to the public in microfiche onsite and also online. By making the index available online, The National Archives has made it accessible to people from their own homes. It is searchable by name, rank and regimental number. Since its launch, the medal card index has been hugely popular and there have been over 300,000 downloads of the records from people all over the world.

2. The original medal index cards were previously held by The Ministry of Defence (MOD). These are now in the custody of the Imperial War Museum, which has accepted the relatively small sub-collection (around 44,000 cards) recording awards to women, and the Western Front Association, which has accepted the remainder. The Association is developing plans to digitise the cards with a view to making them available to the public. More information will become available via the Association's website www.westernfrontassociation.com as its plans progress.

3. The reverse sides of the index cards have not been copied to the microfilm held at The National Archives as the vast majority of them are blank. A very small percentage, possibly as low as one or two per cent, has something written on the reverse, and in some, but not all cases, this was the address to which the medals were sent.

4. Officials of The National Archives and the Ministry of Defence met with Mr Bruce Simpson, Chairman of the Western Front Association (WFA), on 27 September 2006, and inspected the medal index cards and the premises in which they are presently stored. The premises remain suitable, in security and environmental terms. The WFA does not yet have in place the means to respond to requests from the public for information from the cards but has now given assurances that, before the end of 2006, it will introduce a service providing copies of Medal Index Cards in response to requests from the public.

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