Shipping records for Jacob Johnson

[brigidmac]

The title on this record was world war 1 medals
It was free to download but the dates I can make out  are 1920 1921 and I don't know what these notes mean.

Thanks in advance

[brigidmac]

A zoom in on the dates should I have posted in world war 1 section

[Crumblie]

Both medals were returned, perhaps they did not have the correct address for him or perhaps he did not want them, or a third possibility is that he had returned to Sierra Leone.

[ALAMO2008]

That's How I read the Notes
That the Medals were probably Returned Address Unknown by the Post Office from his Address given years before when he became Merchant Navy
His Merchant Navy Records will be held in The National Archives of the Ships he Sailed with and when
Probably Discharge Date and Address then.

[brigidmac]

There is a list of numbers which might be the ships on reply 9
Of this post

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=871114.msg7424599#msg7424599

I don't know where he was in 1921 but he was still in Newport from his marriage in 1926 until his death in 1954
He had 14 children with Violet PRICE

I spoke to one of the youngest today .

Would the family be entitled to claim these medals

[ALAMO2008]

Yes with a copy of that Medal Card showing them Returned Unclaimed

https://www.gov.uk/apply-medal-or-veterans-badge/apply-for-a-medal

[brigidmac]

Thank you so much

Jacob was a very reserved popular man.
his family didn't know about his participation in WW1

[ShaunJ]

FindMyPast has this CR10 from 1918 with a photograph
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=TNA%2FMSEA%2FBT350%2F12%2F89%2F128942&parentid=TNA%2FBT350%2F2130830171%2F1

and this one from 1921 with a different photo

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=TNA%2FMSEA%2FBT349%2F14%2F01%2F140143&parentid=TNA%2FBT349%2F2130543377%2F1

[brigidmac]

Thank you I haven't got find my past but have seen two records with photos .
Is one the same as the one I posted with ship numbers

One of the daughters had the same photo as was used for an ID record