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Re: Army Service Corps WW1

JeffH01  (View posts) Posted: 1 Mar 2008 12:00AM GMT
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A Medal Index Card “does what it says on the label” it is card indexed by name that give the medal entitlement and medal roll references for a man [or woman] who served in the forces [incl. Red Cross & Voluntary Aid Detachment] during WWI. The only personal information they give is name, rank, number etc., they do not give age, place or date of birth.

I have not seen a medal from Ancestry but I must assume they are the same as those on the NA's site.

Keeping to men who served in the army, more personal information will only be available [from various sources] for those who died during the war, or if they lived through it in personal records that either survived the WWII Blitz, albeit damaged, or those who’s records were recreated from pension records. Each group represents around 20% of the total of those who served in the Army.

Both sets are available at the National Arcives Kew and on Ancstry [at least the pension records are]. I can't say if the Burnt Documents are yet on Ancestry or how complete either group is.

As for serving in the Cavalry, there doesn’t appear to be any index cards for Moore names that are as good a fit for the ASC one. Search the NA's site for Moore [forename blank] and key word cavalry to see all possibles. Although the ASC used significant motor transport, the majority of supplies were moved by horse transport; the ASC was known as “Ally Sloper’s Cavalry”, so perhaps that's where it came from.

SubjectAuthorDate Posted
prentonboys 29 Feb 2008 12:18PM GMT 
JeffH01 1 Mar 2008 12:00AM GMT 
prentonboys 1 Mar 2008 7:57PM GMT 
JeffH01 1 Mar 2008 11:16PM GMT 
prentonboys 2 Mar 2008 12:33AM GMT 
JeffH01 2 Mar 2008 6:09PM GMT 
prentonboys 3 Mar 2008 10:10AM GMT 
honkers98 22 Jul 2008 12:30AM GMT 
JeffH01 22 Jul 2008 3:12PM GMT 
honkers98 22 Jul 2008 10:20PM GMT 
   

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