I have inherited some medals from my g.grandfather, and g.g. grandfather and am looking at getting them mounted, but wanted to list the correct years of service on the framed inscription. This is where I've been having some trouble:
I have the medal card for my g.g. grandfather, W.C. Boon, who served in WW1 (attached here). This, and the medals I have are the only military-related items I have found relating to his service. And is there any other way to tell which year he joined? He doesn't have the 1914-15 star, so I am assuming his years of service are 1916-1919, does this seem right?
More complicated is my g.g. grandfather, Thomas Mellings (1058807), who joined the Royal Artillery in 1924, and left, from what I can tell from the photos I have, around 1932, a year before his marriage. But then after joining the Home Guard in 1940, he was called up again for WW2 in Nov 1940, serving in Italy in 1945 (with a different service number of 1094551). Again, I don't know when he left service after the War - is there any way I could find out this information - I have tried searches on Ancestry but haven't found any military documents for him?