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Offline Wendi

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Re: Help!!!!
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 11 April 10 20:31 BST (UK) »
Quote from: gortonboy on Sunday 11 April 10 16:26 BST (UK)
only medal card i can find for a william edward weston is

Trouble is there are 5 more for William E Weston  ::)

Perhaps he retired and was in the Labour Corps for WW1 so no MIC but perhaps a service record at TNA  :-\

Wendi  :)
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Offline lozwot54

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« Reply #10 on: Sunday 11 April 10 21:01 BST (UK) »
Gosh, thankyou all so much for trying to help in my search.
I don't have anything else to go on, although i have quite a lot of Family Tree knowledge i don't know anything about my Grandfathers military years. An elderly cousin of mine thought he spent some time at 'The Somme', I haven't found any evidence of that though.
I'm afraid i'm not too hot on Military terms etc, could you enlighten me on the abbreviations mentioned in Wendi's post, (MIC & TNA).

                                            Lorraine.

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« Reply #11 on: Sunday 11 April 10 21:24 BST (UK) »
Sorry Lorraine !

I hate acronyms but now find myself using them  ::)

MIC's are Medal Index Cards.  These are the main reference to soldiers who served in WW1 and went abroad.  There were many soldiers who served in the UK and never went abroad who did not receive a MIC.

TNA is The National Archives at Kew in London.  If your Granddad served as a soldier and retired prior to WW1 his service record should be there.

Wendi  :)
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it!  No matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason and with your own common sense" ~ Buddha

SCOTT ~ Monmouthshire & Glamorgan
BUCKLEY ~ Cork & Manchester
FRANKLIN ~ Clerkenwell, London
BRADY ~ Kildare & Manchester
DERICK ~ France
FRIEND ~ Kent & Portsmouth
TYLDESLEY ~ Lancashire
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« Reply #12 on: Sunday 11 April 10 21:28 BST (UK) »
Thanx for clearing that up. I should have known TNA, think i just had a senior moment.

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