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Title: general information.
Post by: olni on Friday 02 September 11 12:33 BST (UK)

Can anyone explain references on a medal list card please.Cause of discharge, P392 (xxva) Action taken List cy/542. thanks olni.

Title: Re: general information.
Post by: gortonboy on Friday 02 September 11 12:39 BST (UK)

this may help

http://www.forrestdale.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/KingsRegs1912/Para392Introduction.html

xxva) (25a) Surplus to military requirements (Not having suffered impairment since entry into the service)

Title: Re: general information.
Post by: olni on Friday 02 September 11 12:52 BST (UK)

Many thanks, I am new to this website. Amazed at the speed of reply.

Title: Re: general information.
Post by: forester on Friday 02 September 11 20:17 BST (UK)

List CY/542 would suggest that he was discharged with the Silver War Badge (SWB), which is somewhat contradictory to Para 392 (xxva). Does this appear on his medal index card?

CY = Cavalry York. Was he in the Hussars or similar?

Phil

Title: Re: general information.
Post by: olni on Saturday 03 September 11 17:30 BST (UK)

 Thanks for the help.
 It was the medal index card. It states, Corps, Pembroke Yeomanry.Date of discharge 11.1.19.  Enlistment.13.10.14.

Title: Re: general information.
Post by: Redroger on Saturday 03 September 11 20:31 BST (UK)

Date of discharge suggests to me had had enlisted for the duration of the war and when it was over was discharged.

Title: Re: general information.
Post by: olni on Sunday 04 September 11 12:22 BST (UK)

Thanks for the info, can anyone tell me if and how I can find out where the 1/1st Pembroke Yeomanry served during 1914/1918 and can I get an individual service record. Is it possible to apply for replica medals awarded to a soldier?

Title: Re: general information.
Post by: forester on Sunday 04 September 11 13:50 BST (UK)

This is the place to start for the Pembroke Yeomanry:

http://www.1914-1918.net/pembroke.htm

If his service record survives it will be at the National Archives / on Ancestry, unless he was an officer, in which case, Kew only. Only about 30% of records have survived however.

No official replica medals are issued, but no doubt they are available commercially.

Phil

Title: Re: general information.
Post by: olni on Monday 05 September 11 10:10 BST (UK)

Many thanks Phil, Regards Olni.

Title: Re: general information.
Post by: cati on Monday 05 September 11 10:17 BST (UK)

You can purchase replica medals from here:
http://www.worcmedals.com/

Doubtless other sites as well.

Cati

Title: Re: general information.
Post by: Redroger on Monday 05 September 11 17:54 BST (UK)

You live and learn. I believed that it is illegal to make replica medals.

Title: Re: general information.
Post by: forester on Monday 05 September 11 19:44 BST (UK)

Presumably, provided you sell it as a replica, it is OK.

Phil

Title: Re: general information.
Post by: Redroger on Tuesday 06 September 11 11:33 BST (UK)

And unless it's so stamped somewhere say on the edge, that is the seat of a potential problem.