WW1 - MEDALS

[jim1]

As an aside this is where he fell. Apologies if you already know.
Their objective was Mouquet Farm & quarry.
He was one of 534 casualties of the 16/HLI that day.

[whitej]

thank you Jim

[Gwil]

It was only Officers who had to apply for medals (or applied on their behalf by e.g family if deceased). Those for the rank & file men were automatically sent to the last address known on their file.



Note the date stamp 21 Jun 1983. This means someone approached the medal authorities regarding this man/medals around that date. My understanding is that those records (i.e who, why etc) no longer exist.

[Gwil]

Here's a thread from 2008 on the Great War Forum which is about him (and another relative) Bear in mind that many documents were not online at that time.

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/topic/109947-medals-issued/?tab=comments#comment-1045591

[whitej]

thank you Gwil.

That's interesting what you said about approach in 1983. I am next of kin if you like got me wondering now.