Hi Tom. Thanks for your reply. It looks like he never did get a medal. I wasa talking to the veteran's son on the weekend & he can't remember seeing any medal around the house. He has a few things that belonged to his father but no medal. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Tulloch-Marshall" <prosearch@btinternet.com> To: <greatwar@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 3:50 AM Subject: Re: [GREATWAR] Canadians in the RFC > Bill - my understanding is that Canadian servicemen during WW1 had "qualifying overseas service" if they reached the UK (whereas a British serviceman had to have service outside the UK in a "qualifying country" - principally war zones). I don't think that service in the USA would qualify a Canadian for the British War Medal ------------- but stranger things have happened ! > > I'd stick with "no", but you really need somebody with knowledge of the Canadian issue regs to confirm this. > regards > - > Tom Tulloch-Marshall > WW1 Military Research > website - http://www.btinternet.com/~prosearch/index.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >