WW1 Medal Cards - Guidance please!!!!

[stevielad]

I've just finally traced my GGrandfather's WW1 medals card and could do with a little guidance, please!!!

Theatre of War first served in is : (1). Any ideas what this means?
What does the "Regiment No." signify? Is this his personal number or one for the Regiment? He was a South Staffs soldier and other South Staffs soldiers have different numbers, so I'm a little confused!!!

Many thanks for any help given.

Steve Bate

[Jane Eden]

The theatre of war is the entire land sea and air that may become or is involved in the war operations. The number is their regimental number.

More can be found about the Soth Staffs regiment at

http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/038SStaf.htm

Jane

[ChrisPage]

Found this for you

The Operational theatres of War codes on the MICs were as follows

to 31/12/1915

1 Western Europe
2 Balkans
3 Egypt
4 Africa
5 Asia
6 Australasia

From 1/1/1916

1 Western Europe
a France & Belgium
b Italy

Christine

[stevielad]

Thank you, both, for your help.

Steve Bate

[Neptune]

Hi Steve

Just seen your message about the medal index card - You might like have a look at the Great War Forum site where there is a section on interpreting medal index cards (MIC) Here is the address

[http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?]

Then go to interpreting MIC's

There are lots of people there who are very helpful. If you put the image on I'm sure someone will help you. I did this and they explained mine to me.

Hope you find this useful.

EM