I have just received a message from my cousin who's been going through our great uncle's WWII service record. It included a document "which appeared to indicate that he was entitled to some award/medal for his naval service in the Atlantic 1942/43 and Burma in 1945.". Neither my cousin nor I have seen these medals, so cannot describe any ribbons. It may be our great uncle never applied for them. If he didn't, I'm not sure we'd be able to now. The Burma Star we know about but the 1942/43 Atlantic one has us puzzled. Can anyone help please? -- Connie http://oursalmons.wordpress.com/

> I have just received a message from my cousin who's been going through > our great uncle's WWII service record. It included a document "which > appeared to indicate that he was entitled to some award/medal for his > naval service in the Atlantic 1942/43 and Burma in 1945.". Neither my > cousin nor I have seen these medals, so cannot describe any ribbons. > It may be our great uncle never applied for them. If he didn't, I'm > not sure we'd be able to now. If he din't collerct them, you can apply. If he did but they are lost, no -you have to purchase copies commercially. google medals- naval. EVE Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society

This is interesting as I've just found from Ancestry.com that my cousin Herbert Portland Dunlop Smith was awarded a medal of some kind for his service in the Merchant Navy during the war. The link from Ancestry only takes me to a record at the National Archives, so it looks as if I won't be finding out what the medal was. Since he's not a direct ancestor I haven't really got £3.50 to order the record. Jeanette -----Original Message----- From: Connie via Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 2:51 AM To: Middx Subject: [MDX] WWII medals I have just received a message from my cousin who's been going through our great uncle's WWII service record. It included a document "which appeared to indicate that he was entitled to some award/medal for his naval service in the Atlantic 1942/43 and Burma in 1945.". Neither my cousin nor I have seen these medals, so cannot describe any ribbons. It may be our great uncle never applied for them. If he didn't, I'm not sure we'd be able to now. The Burma Star we know about but the 1942/43 Atlantic one has us puzzled. Can anyone help please? -- Connie http://oursalmons.wordpress.com/ . ************************************** Send your List messages using *PLAIN TEXT* and always *DELETE* all previous messages EXCEPT the one to which you are replying. *MEANINGFUL Subject Lines* ie name or topic, date and place with surnames only in CAPS. List Admin can be contacted at: Middlesex_County_UK-admin@rootsweb.com The List Archive, containing all messages posted, can be found at: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=middlesex_county_uk . ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MIDDLESEX_COUNTY_UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message