Hi Eddie The only thing I can see so far is his medal card Name: William Blues Regiment or Corps: Durham Light Infantry, Army Service Corps Regimental number: 18680, M2/162122 Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) >I have a 1914/15 star belonging to Pte W Blues 18680 Durham Light >Infantry.It was with my Grandfathers Medals.I think he must have lived in >the Birtley area.My grandfather was from Birtley and lived in Model >cottages Birtley.Can anyone throw any light on him. > Regards > Eddie Gregg.

Dear Nivard, Where does one look up medal cards? Are medal lists available for the Boer War? Cheers, Kerry from Brisbane. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nivard Ovington" <ovington1@sky.com> To: <eddieg@fsmail.net>; "eng-durham" <eng-durham@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-DURHAM] Pte W Blues. D.L.I. > Hi Eddie > > The only thing I can see so far is his medal card > > Name: William Blues > Regiment or Corps: Durham Light Infantry, Army Service Corps > Regimental number: 18680, M2/162122 > > Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > > >>I have a 1914/15 star belonging to Pte W Blues 18680 Durham Light >>Infantry.It was with my Grandfathers Medals.I think he must have lived in >>the Birtley area.My grandfather was from Birtley and lived in Model >>cottages Birtley.Can anyone throw any light on him. >> Regards >> Eddie Gregg. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-DURHAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 4023 (20090420) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4023 (20090420) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com

Hi Kerry The medal cards are for WW1 entitlement and are available on Ancestry who also have the reverse of the cards scanned which in about 2% of cases may have the forwarding address on The same cards are available on the National Archives but not the reverse but there are other cards available not on Ancestry for certain higher awards or rather there may be an additional card on the NA Ancestry also have the (so called) Pension records for WW1 service and are making available the "Burned" records the surviving 30% or so of WW1 service records which were damaged/destroyed during WW2, they have currently A to N available I do not know of access to the Boer War medal rolls online but the following may help in your search :- http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=South_African_War_(Boer)_1899-1902 Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > Dear Nivard, > > Where does one look up medal cards? Are medal lists available for the > Boer War? > > Cheers, > Kerry from Brisbane.