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DCM award 1916
« on: Thursday 09 August 18 14:15 BST (UK) »
Hi all.
I'm looking for some help. In 1916 my paternal grandfather was awarded the DCM at the oval barracks. As this is such a prestigious award, I would have thought it would have had some recorded photographic evidence of the day. I have tried Birkenhead ref library to no avail, can anyone think where else I can try.

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Re: DCM award 1916
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 09 August 18 14:28 BST (UK) »
Around 25,000 DCMs were awarded in WW1.
This overwhelming number of awards may have made individual presentations less newsworthy.


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Re: DCM award 1916
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 09 August 18 14:36 BST (UK) »
Thanks Tony, I didn't realize there were so many. So in your opinion there might not have been a mention of this avent in any local newspapers. My thoughts were that as he was in the Cheshire regiment, and it was being awarded in Birkenhead, there might have been something even in a local paper at this time.

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Re: DCM award 1916
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 09 August 18 14:45 BST (UK) »
Hi,
Can you give his surname?
There are quite a few mentions in the newspapers  for men awarded the DCM in 1916 in Cheshire
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Re: DCM award 1916
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 09 August 18 15:07 BST (UK) »
If it made the papers in Birkenhead - you may be lucky and find something in here
http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/

look for the search box when you scroll down and put his name in
good luck  :)
oakes,liverpool..neston..backford..poulton cum spittal(bebington)middlewich,cheshire......   sacht,helgoland  .......merrick,herefordshire adams,shropshire...tipping..ellis..  jones,garston,liverpool..hartley.dunham massey..barker. salford

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Re: DCM award 1916
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 09 August 18 17:34 BST (UK) »
Hi Cathy,
His name was William Frost, ancestry list in fold three what he received the medal for, but what I am hoping is that I can retrieve a photograph of the event. My next question will be, what local newspapers existed at this time.

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Re: DCM award 1916
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 09 August 18 18:06 BST (UK) »
Where was his home? Try the local papers there as well. There are now quite a lot scanned for the early 20th century in the British Newspaper Archive.
Simons Barrett Jaffray Waugh Langdale Heugh Meade Garnsey Evans Vazie Mountcure Glascodine Parish Peard Smart Dobbie Sinclair....
in Stirlingshire, Roxburghshire; Bucks; Devon; Somerset; Northumberland; Carmarthenshire; Glamorgan

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Re: DCM award 1916
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 09 August 18 22:18 BST (UK) »
He lived in Liverpool, but his family originated in Cheshire, ergo he joined the Cheshire regiment
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