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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: DORAN54 on Saturday 19 September 20 15:26 BST (UK)
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please can some one tell me the cause of medical discharge disability
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Explanation of DAH (the number appears to be 30% which comes up on his pension ward sheet later in the papers.)
https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/what-were-vdh-and-dah/#:~:text=DAH%20means%20disorderly%20action%20of%20the%20heart%2C%20sometimes,Sir%20Arthur%20F.%20Hurst%20%28London%3A%20Edward%20Arnold%2C%201918%29%3A
Aggravated by Army Service not attributable.
MaxD
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Thank you so much for your reply so heart problem. can you tell me if you know if the men ere photographed when they joined up and if so how can you get a copy of the photo? thank you
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I added to my post.
No, there was no official process of photographing individual soldiers.
MaxD
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Thank you Max
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HI Max can you help me again please. i wonder does the 1st attachment show that he had been in the army before??
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It would seem so, Oct 1881 to Aug 1887. First quick glance shows pension records for his earlier service on Fold 3 on Ancestry.
MaxD
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thank you do you have to pay to see what's on fold 3?
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Unfortunately - yes but I think you can sign up on a trial basis and then scrap it later.
They'll be the top two here:https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/60917/?name=_monaghan&f-F80077C6=678
MaxD
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right ok thank you i have joined i can see both records this may seem a stupid question but does that mean he was actualy in chelsea hospital?
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There are no stupid questions only gaps in knowledge to be filled :)
Army pensioners were administered by the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the vast majority were "out-pensioners". "In-pensioners" were the relatively few who surrendered their pension in exchange for residence in the Royal Hospital. Since the 1950s, when the Royal Hospital ceased to be responsible for the distribution of pensions, the term Chelsea Pensioner has largely replaced the term in- pensioner. Your chap was almost certainly an out-pensioner.
MaxD
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Thank you Max
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Hi again max i have googled but can't find out what this punishment means francis mortimor 4th battalion R.I.F 2921
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The Bounty Board was an institution specific to the militia which could consider whether a man's annual bounty should be all or part withheld because he had committed some offence. Appearance before the board appears to have been ordered here because of his lateness but no result is recorded.
MaxD
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thank you it does say deserter did you notice :-[ oh dear
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Yes, that was on 22 Oct 1916 in Dublin (still in 4th Battalion RIR). Unless it is on the unreadable scraps of paper there appears no record of whether he turned up again.
MaxD
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well i have had trouble finding him after that :-\so maybe not. if they did find him would he have been shot for desertion?
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No. No soldier who deserted and subsequently court martialled on home soil was executed.
MaxD
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oh right that's good i wonder what happened to him thanks again for your help