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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: davidpinkney on Thursday 21 September 06 21:20 BST (UK)
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I have just downloaded a medal card from documents online at the national archives website (never done it before so this is just a trial run)
The card is for a Robert L Pinkney who i am hoping is my great uncle. My great uncle was born in Mar qtr 1899 in Billy Row, Crook, Durham and this is all i know about him.
The card has the follwing info:
Name: Robert L Pinkney
Corps: Northumberland Fus, E Yorke R (this seems self explanatory)
Rank: Looks like Pte? (Private?)
Regtl No:64637 and below that 50817
Victory = 0/1/102B14 (the B could be 13?) page 1522
British = as above
and thats it
Is it normal to get a scan of 6 cards on one page when you download a card?
What does this mean?
Where do i look next?
Two of the other cards shown the corps as ASC and the other RFA 65 Bde for two other Pinkney individual, what do these initials stand for?
Sorry for so many questions, i've been doing my tree for 2 years now but have never tackled military genealogy before now
any help appreciated
David
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Hi David,
The ASC stands for the army service corp and as for RFA 65 Bde it is an army unit but my husband doesn't recognise it, he said that in the first world war there were many obscure units.
Hope that has help you a bit.
Alison
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Hi
RFA 65 Bde= Royal Field Artillery 65th Brigade, The Royal Field Artillery are not an obscure unit