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Medal Roll interpretation please
« on: Friday 24 August 18 14:09 BST (UK) »
Could some kind soul please interpret this entry on the Service Medal and Award Rolls?

Many thanks in advance.





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Re: Medal Roll interpretation please
« Reply #1 on: Friday 24 August 18 16:10 BST (UK) »
My (hopefully educated) guess is that this was an enlistment/re-enlistment in 1919 to serve in the North Russia Relief Force   Many of the other men on the roll were 1919 re-enlistments from other regiments specifically for the purpose.  The roll also has interpreters from Salonika - mentioned to indicate that this is an "odds and sods" roll.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Churchills-Secret-War-Lenin-Commonwealth/dp/1911512102 shows the composition of the British element. 

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Re: Medal Roll interpretation please
« Reply #2 on: Friday 24 August 18 17:30 BST (UK) »
Many thanks MaxD.  I've since found his medal card and it says he got Victory and British medals - RASC/101B173, page number 17680 (same page number as the snip).  :)



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Re: Medal Roll interpretation please
« Reply #3 on: Friday 24 August 18 17:36 BST (UK) »
That's right. His service record does not seem to have survived but I'd guess at serving in Salonika when the call came for volunteers and he went on the expedition.

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Re: Medal Roll interpretation please
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 25 August 18 18:27 BST (UK) »
Many thanks MaxD - AND my apologies for not acknowledging your response  :'( :'(
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Re: Medal Roll interpretation please
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 25 August 18 19:28 BST (UK) »
 ;D ;D ;D

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I am Zoe Northeast, granddaughter of Maximilian Double.
 
It is with great difficulty I share with you that in the early hours of 07 August 2021, Maximilian passed away unexpectedly but peacefully.

With deep sadness,
Zoe



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