Can anyone please help with these medal cards?

[Kevwood]

These are my Grandad and great grandads WWI medal cards, can anyone clarify the bits of writing at the bottom for me please. I have read that it is about mentions in dispatches, but what info can i get from knowing this.

Thanks .

Kev.

This is grandads

[Kevwood]

And these are great grandads.

[manmack]

kev,your g/fathers card says he was a pte in the glouc regt,he had three army numbers,1754,265089 and 5174421,he landed in france on 26-5-16,he was awarded the war+victory medals.
your great g/father was a col/sgt in the glouc regt later a CQMS,his army number was265008,he landed in france on31-3-15,he is also TA.awarded the war+victory medals and 1914-15 star,mack

[Kevwood]

Hi Mack, thanks for that,i knew their numbers, do you know why my grandad had 3, would they be militia,volunteers and regular army numbers?

Kev.

[manmack]

kev,all i can be sure of is this,the 1st No is his orig one,the 2nd was when he was renumbered during the war,the third one i cant be positive about,he could have gone into the labour corps,that would explain it,it looks like one of their numbers,mack

[Kevwood]

Thanks Mack.

I have contacted the Gloster regiment museum and they don't have him under the last number so i have now E - Mailed them asking to look under the first and second numbers. Fingers crossed.

Kev.

[manmack]

kev,check the rim of his victory medal that may tell you,mack

[M.T.H]

Hi Kev,

Thanks for the pm,it's a pleasure to be able to help out where I can.

Are you sure that these are the medal cards for two men? as it looks to me that they might be for the same man.The first service number he was given was 1745 and it was quite common for soldiers to have a few service numbers during their time in the army and he would have been a private.

Soldiers were often given a new number if they moved to another unit or even if they went to a different battalion within the same regiment.My ggrandfather had five different numbers,a four figure one from his service in the boer war and the others from his time in ww1.

Two of the service numbers on the medal cards are very close and would probably mean than both your grandad and ggrandad both served in the same battalion at the same time,either that,or the number is a mistranscription,would that fit with what you know?

I'm not sure about all of the annotations on the medal cards (I'll look into it) but the numbers next to the medal names are the reference numbers for the medal roll on which they can be found (they are kept at TNA).Both medal cards refer to the same medal roll and page number.

I'll have a look around and see if I can find anything and I'll let you know.

Best wishes,Mick

[Kevwood]

Hi Mick, yes they both served together in wwI in the same regiment.


I know the emb bits are emblems and date . But i dont know what that means exactly.


Kev.