WWI medal - Army I think

[Dean1]

I had a GGG Grandmother called Harriet Seward.   She was a member of the Seward Steam Engine family in Petersfield, Hampshire (I think the company started after her).    I was intrigued when looking at another well-known genealogy site today (GR) under the name Seward to see that someone has a medal in their possession for an S Seward and is looking for a home for it.

I cannot possibly claim it because I descended on the female side and I don't know of the person anyway.

He was:  S Seward - it is a WWI medal and is engraved T2SR-01915 WO Cl.1 - this, I believe, is a Warrant Officers medal.   

What is T2SR?    Is it possible for some kind person to look up this chaps MIC - I would be most humbly grateful.   I am curious.

Sue

[forester]

Hello Sue,

T2SR is an Army Service Corps prefix, but so far I haven't had any luck tracking down a MIC.

Phil

[jds1949]

There are 10 hits for S Seward on the NA site:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/browse-refine.asp?CatID=10&searchType=browserefine&pagenumber=1&query=*&queryType=1

None appear to be a warrant officer, so he may be listed under his full name.

jds1949

[Modified] for some reason I can't post the complete link - so you will have to go to the search page and type in his name yourself - and while I was doing that I see he has been found - oh well....

[km1971]

His name was Sergeant (Acting WO Class 1) Samuel Seward of the Army Service Corps. His medal index card – either on Ancestry or on the NA medal card website – has his number as T2/SR 01915. T2 means Horse Transport section.in the 2nd New Army.  The low number 01915 indicates an early joining date. But if you get no joy here I suggest you find an ASC expert on the Great War Forum,

Steward served in Egypt. He was also awarded the Silver War Badge for being discharged early - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/medals.asp
 
http://www.1914-1918.net/asc.htm

Ken

Phil... the NA site has it as T2/SR

[forester]

Thanks Ken.

Logic would imply that SR = Special Reserve ..... but then logic isn't always right.

Phil

[km1971]

Hi Phil

I wondered about that. There are men with numbers starting T1/SR but not T3/SR or T4/SR. Maybe all the SRs were used up in the first two waves?

Ken

[Dean1]

Thank you all so much for what you discovered.

Does the MIC by any chance say he came from Petersfield or Buriton, Hampshire.

Sue

[mosher]

Hi Sue,
I am looking at a record, but the number given is T2SR 01905, rather than 01915.  The name etc corresponds.  The address given for this Samuel Seward (01905) is 25 Edith Rd, Stratford, London.

[Dean1]

Many thanks for that Mosher.    He is clearly not one of my Sewards sadly.

Sue