Transcribed from The National Archives (TNA) WO 162/381 Medals Branch Noting Book Volume 2. In a fragment of a standard letter replying for a request for replacement medals the applicant is asked to:
#CIVIL WART FILE CARDS PLUS#
The table below is based on sampling both the Medal Cards and Rolls plus information from archival sources.Īside from the first issue of medals, together with the production and distribution of medals to the Record Offices, the procedure for the replacement of lost medals had something in common with the judicial based procedures used by R (Records) at Isleworth and Arnside to replace documents for soldiers such as lost Discharge and Character certificates. We only see this kind of detail for the Other Ranks on some of the entries in the medal rolls when either A.G.10 or its successor A.G.4 (Medals) was dealing with a problem over the issue/return of the medals with the Record Office or the medals were issued after the Record Offices had ceased to be responsible for their issue. As is well known Officers had to claim their medals (for example via an EF9 form) whilst Other Ranks medals were allocated by the Record Office (although this did not stop mistakes, omissions or returns of medals by those who did not want them). In contrast the Officer rolls completed by A.G.10 include voucher numbers/codes, comments and in the surviving medal cards often the addresses of the officers or next of kin who A.G. This means that the Rolls we see tend to lack the issue voucher numbers and other details (including notes of address/next of kin) that the copies of the Rolls and other documents kept at the Record Offices would often likely have featured. 10 to agree, and then arrange the engraving of the military details of the individuals named in the Rolls. The regimental and corps medal rolls we see for the Other Ranks (including women of all ranks, who did not have military rank whatever their position) were submitted by the relevant Record Offices to A.G. Although A.G.10 was responsible for policy on the issue of medals and also their production/engraving it was only directly responsible for the distribution of medals to Officers, with the Army Record Offices responsible for the distribution of medals sent from A.G.10 to the Other Ranks. Such a large caseworking as well as policy organisation required a large number of files which as is set out below in the Medal & Rolls key below were destroyed in the Arnside fire, long having served their purpose for the much smaller organisation which A.G.4 (Medals) had become by the early 1930s.Ī.G.10 (Medals) was established as a War Office Division during WW1 with the huge increase in the number of service and gallantry awards during the War. With 558 staff in 1921, by 1928 this number had been reduced to 30 staff and only staff remained by 1935 (all figures compiled from the War Office List). The following is a short introduction intended to give the background to the table of file numbers used by Medal Branch (A.G.10, from 1928 renamed A.G.4 Medals, see War Office List) which feature on a number of Medal Cards and Rolls.
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