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Title: Help to interpret Medal Card Victor Stanley Thomas 1st Monmouthshires
Post by: IanT on Sunday 17 November 13 14:52 GMT (UK)

Hello, a newbie here,
I've found the WW1 Medal Card for my grandfather Victor Stanley Thomas, one of the 1st Monmouthshires to survive the war.
I can interpret the medal entitlements, but I do not understand the final comment that looks like
B N N? M ...
but could easily be
13 17 N? M ...

Can anyone recognise the abbreviation or interpret this final comment?

Title: Re: Help to interpret Medal Card Victor Stanley Thomas 1st Monmouthshires
Post by: jds1949 on Sunday 17 November 13 18:30 GMT (UK)

I think it reads BW [British War] & VM [Victory Medal] - then a whole series of codes, dated 8th November 1921 - which probably relate to either the dispatch of those two medals or some other action taken in relation to them.

Worth looking here for more general background on MICs:

http://www.1914-1918.net/soldiers/interpretmic.html

jds1949

Title: Re: Help to interpret Medal Card Victor Stanley Thomas 1st Monmouthshires
Post by: IanT on Monday 18 November 13 16:04 GMT (UK)

Thank you very much jds, I see that now, and it does make sense!