Medal Card

[BarbW]

I have just found a medal card on Ancestry that is possibly my grandfather.  I believe it's a medical Corp but can find no other records.  I posted a photo on here of him in army uniform some months ago but nobody was able to identify it.  He was killed in a road traffic accident in WW2 and was some kind of cook in the RAF which makes me question the change of occupation from medic to cook.  Here is the transcript as you can see a very common name in Wales.  TIA.

[jim1]

48876 Williams went overseas Oct. 1915 & was based on a Hospital Ship.
Discharged March 1919.

[ALAMO2008]

Was Thomas from Bethesda ?
When was he Born ? Do you have his DOB ?
When and where did he Die in WW2

[Andy J2022]

Just because he was in the RAMC doesn't mean that he was definitely a medic. Indeed he might have a been a cook in the RAMC. The Army Catering Corps was not created until 1941; before that units had to have their own cooks, who would wear the same capbadge as the soldiers who were responsible for carrying out the unit's main role, whether that was the Infantry or medical services.

[BarbW]

Was Thomas from Bethesda ?
When was he Born ? Do you have his DOB ?
When and where did he Die in WW2

Yes he was born in Bethesda on 22 Feb 1898.  He was killed on 2 May 1943 in Whitchurch, Shropshire.

[BarbW]

48876 Williams went overseas Oct. 1915 & was based on a Hospital Ship.
Discharged March 1919.

He was the informant and present at his mother's death on 11 Nov 1918 in Penmaenmawr.

[tonepad]

BarbW

The document you posted is not a Medal Card. There is a separate medal card available for the soldier with Service Number 48876.


Is this the uniform post you refer to below:

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=885127.0

The cap badge on the photo is not RAMC. How certain are you that this is actually a photo of your grandfather. Do you have other photos for comparison?


Tony

[BarbW]

Just because he was in the RAMC doesn't mean that he was definitely a medic. Indeed he might have a been a cook in the RAMC. The Army Catering Corps was not created until 1941; before that units had to have their own cooks, who would wear the same capbadge as the soldiers who were responsible for carrying out the unit's main role, whether that was the Infantry or medical services.

Thank you.

[BarbW]

BarbW

The document you posted is not a Medal Card. There is a separate medal card available for the soldier with Service Number 48876.


Is this the uniform post you refer to below:

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=885127.0

The cap badge on the photo is not RAMC. How certain are you that this is actually a photo of your grandfather. Do you have other photos for comparison?


Tony

Yes I have a photo of him with my grandmother taken circa 1921.  Her daughters both had a copy in their possession as I found out before I came across it last year.  The army photo was sent to me about 30 years ago by his son but it was a very blurry copy of a copy until a family member sent me the original last Christmas taken in a photographic studio in Llandudno.