Walter Oakley- what medals did he get?

[carol8353]

I am helping a friend with his grandad's ancestry.
He served in the Royal Fusiliers in WW1.
My friend knows he got some medals ,but we cannot work out which.

Can anyone help with what the writing in red to the right hand side says here,and does that tell you what medals he got?

Many thanks

Carol

[ShaunJ]

The document is the medal roll of soldiers entitled to the Victory medal and the British War medal.

As well as those two standard WW1 medals, he was awarded the Military Medal when serving with 26th Battalion.

The writing in red is a reference to Para 992 Kings Regulations re custody of medals

https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/92039-kings-regulations-992-kr-1923/#:~:text=Kings%20Regulations%201923%20Para%20992,be%20obtained%20from%20the%20recipients.

[ShaunJ]

Gazette listing for MM, G/73594 Cpl. Oakley W of Toronto

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31405/page/7663/data.pdf

[ShaunJ]

His MIC has only his first service number, 780, 10th (Stockbrokers) Battalion.

It shows that he also had the 1914/15 Star

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/3476874:1262

[carol8353]

Gazette listing for MM, G/73594 Cpl. Oakley W of Toronto

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31405/page/7663/data.pdf

I am surprised that it mentions him as being of Toronto.
He was born near Manchester on 25 Feb 1893,and married there in 1928.

Many thanks for what you've found so far, I will pass this info on.

[ShaunJ]

Is this his WW2 Home Guard record?

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/62084/images/62084_62021000438_0143-00067

[carol8353]

Is this his WW2 Home Guard record?

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/62084/images/62084_62021000438_0143-00067

Well found Shaun,certainly looks like it as it has the same DOB just under his name,and his wife was indeed Elsie.

Thanks.

[ShaunJ]

He was born near Manchester on 25 Feb 1893,and married there in 1928.

Not the one born 25 February 1893 in Hawkhurst, Kent, married Elsie Edmeston in Barton Upon Irwell in 1925?

[carol8353]

He was born near Manchester on 25 Feb 1893,and married there in 1928.

Not the one born 25 February 1893 in Hawkhurst, Kent, married Elsie Edmeston in Barton Upon Irwell in 1925?

Lots of Ancestry trees have him as born Hawkhurst,but that's someone born in the June 1/4.

Our chap was born in Bolton in the March 1/4.

   OAKLEY, WALTER       mmn LANGTON 
GRO Reference: 1893  M Quarter in BOLTON  Volume 08C  Page 522

But yes sorry I did put the wrong date of marriage down to Elsie Edmeston, 1928 is the year their first son was born! It should indeed be 1925.