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Thank you. I wasn't sure if it was "OK" to display that extra detail that I blurred. Not that it meant anything to me! I appreciate your explanation. Those other medals you refer to, were they in the blurred out bit?
– Andrew Truckle
Commented Nov 18, 2020 at 11:27
I wonder where his 3 medals went in the end? Back to his parents? Or is that sufficient for a new question or open to too much opinion?
– Andrew Truckle
Commented Nov 18, 2020 at 11:33
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If they were claimed then it would be by the next of kin - sometimes the index card says where they went but not in this case. The Register of Soldiers Effects on Ancestry looks like it shows his father as receiving his effects and the pension index cards also list him as next of kin.
– TomH
Commented Nov 18, 2020 at 15:16
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The top right of the medal index card has a rubber stamped box listing the standard three medals that has then had the roll and and page numbers for his medals written in over the stamp.
– TomH
Commented Nov 18, 2020 at 15:17
@TomH - enlisted men didn't need to claim campaign medals in WW1. The Army automatically tried to contact them (else their next of kin) at the last known address first. If the soldier was dead, I've seen a careful process to establish exactly who the next of kin was at that time, that needed sign off by parish priest, magistrate, etc. I've not seen enough to know if that's typical.
– AdrianB38
Commented Nov 18, 2020 at 19:27

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