Adrian, Many thanks for your advice. At this stage, I'm not interested in documenting campaign medals, simply because they are too numerous and I think that they would clog-up the database. However, I am trying to record specific awards of gallantry medals plus civilian awards. Although the latter seem to be awarded in great numbers every year, there are only a handful awarded within my family interests and that makes them special in the context of my research. I quite take the point about the difference between an 'award' and an 'issue'. Thank you for providing specific examples of 'Facts' and I'll give some of those a try. Marion Woolgar