MOD can reissue returned WW1 medals

[Jack TT]

Great stuff, only wish some of my other relatives had returned their medals as well!!!!
Who knows whats happened to the originals!

[Red Tom]

Great stuff, only wish some of my other relatives had returned their medals as well!!!!
Who knows whats happened to the originals!

Thanks again Jack for your help with this.

[kiffagh]

Malcolm

congratulations on getting the medals. i have a question in regards to claiming medals. the soldier's immediate family have all died out once he was killed. so my branch of the family are related to the soldier by my great great grandfather and the soldier's great grandfather are the same man. so does it matter how far back you go to find a common ancestor

[Red Tom]

I'm no expert,so I can only tell you that my wife made the application as the serviceman concerned was her great grandfather,unfortunately, it didn't work when we later applied for his Boer War medals ( which I thought we're also unclaimed,wrongly apparently),we received the standard reply about not issuing medals prior to WW2.

[GemmaD]

Can anyone family member apply for replacement medals as my 3rd uncle on my dad's side has medals I'd like to get for my dad ?

Thank you

Gemma

[Red Tom]

GemmaD, I can't give an answer to that, as the medals we applied for (my wife's great grandfather's) were returned as unclaimed by the serviceman concerned,as opposed to replacements.

[GemmaD]

Ok thank you Tom I’ll do some more research

[MJW]

Malcolm

congratulations on getting the medals. i have a question in regards to claiming medals. the soldier's immediate family have all died out once he was killed. so my branch of the family are related to the soldier by my great great grandfather and the soldier's great grandfather are the same man. so does it matter how far back you go to find a common ancestor

It's probably worth contacting the MoD Medal Office to ask about this.

Malcolm

[MJW]

Can anyone family member apply for replacement medals as my 3rd uncle on my dad's side has medals I'd like to get for my dad ?

Thank you

Gemma

The MoD do not provide replacement medals. They will re-issue medals where it can be shown that the original medals were not received by the intended recipient. See first post in this thread.

Malcolm