medal card interpretation help

[glamorganmorgan]

I have attached a photocopy of Gwilym J Williams record card. He is my grandfather. Can ayone help with what is on it plse, especially the remarks box?
thanks a lot

Gavin

[glamorganmorgan]

He is a private in the Machine Gun Corps and his MCG no is 122755 and he got 2 medals, but what else is on there? I do not have a clue.

[Wendi]

It would appear that at sometime he was a Prisoner of War (POW) and that his medals "undisposed of" meaning that they were returned.  This can be for several reasons, there may have been an inscription error or the parcel was not deliverable, if the recipient had moved house and the Medal Office did not have an up to date address.

Wendi 

[glamorganmorgan]

Thank you Wendi, altho POW is news to me. I have his medals, but there was no mention of pow in spoken history. Spoken history was that he was buried alive and spent 18 months in a sanatorium in Ilkley.

[Mort29]

Looks like he also received a Silver War Badge (last line - SWB), which would support injury etc Sanatorium.

[glamorganmorgan]

SWB ? I do not have that, but  does not mean he didn't have it. Although the route to me, is GWJ to my father to me.  My father was an only child.

[forester]

He wasn't a POW Wendi, it's just the script.

I zoomed it right in and it says "BW & V Medal returned (undisposed of)", although they obviously reached him at some point.

Gavin,

I think a lot of SWBs got lost due to their being worn on a daily basis. Numerous service records have notes saying that they have been handed into the police.

Phil

[glamorganmorgan]

thanks Phil, it makes sense

[Wendi]

Thanks Phil I would have hated to have mislead !

Wendi