Thankyou Paul   I've tried searching the Times to no avail, but will now have another search, had tried the London Gazette but kept coming up with legal bits, so now for another look   Unfortuneatly here in West Australia I don't have access to local papers after 1900   Helen    --- On Sun, 11/7/10, Paul Betteridge <pbetteridge@pobox.com> wrote: From: Paul Betteridge <pbetteridge@pobox.com> Subject: Re: [BRK] George Frederick SLADE M.B.E. To: berkshire@rootsweb.com Received: Sunday, 11 July, 2010, 3:44 PM Dear Helen > George Frederick SLADE was born 1851 at Aston Upthorpe, he was a > solicitor at Wallingford and died 1931 at Wallingford, his death > notice says M.B.E. > > Trying to find out when he recieved his M.B.E. and what for I would say that searching the Times is a sound idea. I have also tried the London Gazette archive: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/search It was a little tricky to find the right search conditions - not so difficult to find references to him in his capacity as a solicitor, but the one you want seems to be in the "Supplement to the London Gazette", 7 June 1918, where he appears (page 6741) for his services as Clerk to Wallingford Rural Tribunal and Crowmarsh Local Tribunal. (I'm not sure what these bodies were, incidentally). The first page of the supplement shows it is a list of people awarded honours in the King's birthday honours list for services in connection with the war. (You may want to read at least some of the pages in between, which may say something else of interest.) Perhaps given a date, you may have more luck looking in the Times. Also, a more local newspaper may give other details. Best wishes Paul -- Paul Betteridge, Leafield, Oxfordshire pbetteridge@pobox.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BERKSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Helen > ... > had tried the London Gazette but kept coming up with legal bits Formulating a search in the London Gazette took a few tries. Searching for "slade" and "wallingford" in the period 1900 to 1931 was what I used in the end: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/1900-01-01;1931-12-31/all=slade+wallingford/start=1 > I've tried searching the Times to no avail > ... No, the Times is not easy either. One point that makes it more difficult to find is that there were so many names that they were published over 5 or 6 days. The other is the patchy indexing - even when I tried to search for "birthday honours" in 1918, the precise article with Mr Slade's honour did not appear. The notice appears on page 2 of the issue of 13 June 1913. It says the same as the London Gazette. > Unfortuneatly here in West Australia I don't have access to local > papers after 1900 That would make it more difficult. Best wishes Paul -- Paul Betteridge, Leafield, Oxfordshire pbetteridge@pobox.com