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Title: Anyone able to decipher Medal Card?
Post by: natjam on Sunday 26 July 09 00:29 BST (UK)
Hi all
Anyone able to tell me the significance of the scraw on this medal card?!
Thanks in anticipation!  :)

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Title: Re: Anyone able to decipher Medal Card?
Post by: mmm45 on Sunday 26 July 09 09:43 BST (UK)
Hi Natjam
One of the first to War! Entered Theatre 16/8/14 thats the earliest ive seen...With 15th Highlanders he was pre war regular with low number.
Entitled to 1914 star british war and victory medals also entitled to clasp and roses for 1914 star as he came under fire the cut off date was Nov 22nd 1914 for clasp and roses.
(you had to apply for clasp and roses)
Ady
Title: Re: Anyone able to decipher Medal Card?
Post by: natjam on Sunday 26 July 09 18:31 BST (UK)
Ah thanks.  I've got his medical history - part of which ive copied here for handwritting id request!  It would appear he was sent back from France because of something I can't quite make out.  Anyone make sense of this?
Most grateful for any help as always  :) :)
Title: Re: Anyone able to decipher Medal Card?
Post by: mmm45 on Sunday 26 July 09 23:01 BST (UK)
Something to do with Right Axilla???

Ady
Title: Re: Anyone able to decipher Medal Card?
Post by: forester on Sunday 26 July 09 23:26 BST (UK)
I agree with you Ady.

The last word may be "old", as in a previously existing / recurring condition.
I.C.T. has got me beat.

Phil
Title: Re: Anyone able to decipher Medal Card?
Post by: km1971 on Monday 27 July 09 09:14 BST (UK)
The T could be tumour. I don't think the C is cancerous, as he was only in hospital for four days. He basically had a lump in his armpit and they removed it. Or, if the I is inflammed, they gave him drugs to reduce the swelling.

If he received the roses he must have survived the war. His NoK wouldn't have had any use for them.

Ken
Title: Re: Anyone able to decipher Medal Card?
Post by: briant on Monday 27 July 09 09:24 BST (UK)
 Intercostal Chest Tube (I C T)

It looks like  they have inserted a tube, via his arm pit, to drain fluid from his chest,

Just put me off me bacon sarny now,
Title: Re: Anyone able to decipher Medal Card?
Post by: natjam on Monday 27 July 09 10:22 BST (UK)
ugh! :P
Thanks guys!!  Do you happen to know if service men in the Kings Hussars who served in South Africa for a couple of years from 1910 would have recieved a medal? 
Title: Re: Anyone able to decipher Medal Card?
Post by: mmm45 on Monday 27 July 09 10:34 BST (UK)
May have got a 1911 Coronation Medal unsure on campaign medals?

Ady
Title: Re: Anyone able to decipher Medal Card?
Post by: km1971 on Monday 27 July 09 11:12 BST (UK)
Well done Brian T.

Ken