1.Confused over MICs Thomas Garfield, Robert Garfield COMPLETED

[scrimnet]

I have now found out how to change the MIC image from PDF to Jpeg, so will post asap. I entered his details wrongly in my first post of the MIC, that's the trouble with trying to do two things at once.
giraffe

I thought women were supposed to be able to multi task...

Dare I enquire as to the colour of your hair??     

[atom12]

giraffe

Just don't let on that your are blonde ..... OK ...lol 

[giraffe]

I have now found out how to change the MIC image from PDF to Jpeg, so will post asap. I entered his details wrongly in my first post of the MIC, that's the trouble with trying to do two things at once.
giraffe

I thought women were supposed to be able to multi task...

Dare I enquire as to the colour of your hair??     

Hi Scrimnet - cheeky!

Here is the MIC - sorted out how to post it while I was feeeding grandchildren, rescuing cat, feeding birds, ironing, . . . - and no, I didn't iron the cat!!
giraffe (- now grey from all this technical stuff

[forester]

giraffe,

If you can hear me, I left a reply earlier on your other thread "Thomas Garfield - does MIC match with photo?" 

It may help to narrow down your options - there again it may not. 

Phil

[atom12]

 

Sure looks like a big "SHOUTY TYPE" of MIC to me, along with him being a Medical-type of person, as it distinctly states, RAMC meaning Royal Army Medical Corp .... Eh Scrim!

[mmm45]

Giraffe
Have you any alternate means of ID such as his medals to hand...That will confirm with number on Rim/Back.
Like i said in earlier post if he didnt deploy to a war zone he may have no MIC the photo is UK Basingstoke,also he may have transferred to RAMC after serving in RFA in UK Or he may not be on the photo.....Great these challenges arent they ??the rellies are probabaly having a good giggle looking down!as we wish they had written something on the backs of the photos!!

The Actual Roll at NA will give the dates of overseas deployment its just a case of getting the info!

Theres something about the RAMC MIC he only got a British War Medal and that is SIGNIFICANT to where he was deployed someone with better knowledge hopefully will step in! lads in INDIA only got a BWM
* just checked up...To qaulify for BWM you had to leave the shores of UK but not necessarily to a War Zone You got a BWM and Victory Medal if you went to a War Zone(14/15 STAR if early arrival)

[giraffe]

mmm
I don't have his medals  I'm sorry to say. I may be able to ask his grand-daughter, but her Dad (Tom's son) only died this January, so I don't want to push in just yet. (I made contact with her through Ancestry. serves us all right for notbeing a close family!).
Your comment about the BWM, - I think he went to Ireland. Seems a bit mean not to give a medal to the lads who went to India!
I really should have done separate posts for Robert Garfield and Tom Garfield shouldn't I!
It's caused so much confusion - to me as well. Plus the site seems to hang now and then, and I had difficulties posting the attachments as I had to change the names before each attachment.
Perhaps I should have found a smiley for 'contrite'.
I'd love to go to NA but can't see it happening.
giraffe

[atom12]

Hi 

The definition I have for the British War Medal:

Approved by King George V for the successful conclusion of WW1 in November 1918. It was later extended to 1920 to cover post-war mine clearance; service in North and South Russia, the Eastern Baltic, Siberia, Black Sea and Caspian.

[giraffe]

atom
I love all these bit of info people keep coming up with, it's going to make really interesting reading when I 'flesh out' my family history inmates.
Just a thought - and off topic - are MICs available for WW2?
giraffe