Merryl I think you are unlikely to get anything very meaningful from these rolls. The key piece of information that you do have is that he served in 2 Welsh. Information about individuals who were not officers rarely made it into official or regimental records in my experience. However you could look on the National Archives website for the war diary of the 2 Welsh. Depending on the diligence of the officer who maintained the diary, usually the adjutant, you could find out some of the day to day activities in which they were involved. The diaries are downloadable at no cost. The regimental museum may also have further information. Try http://www.armymuseums.org.uk Best regards Blair > On 27 Aug 2014, at 08:00, sog-uk-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Medal Rolls helpful? (Merryl Wells) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 07:23:27 +0100 > From: "Merryl Wells" <merryl.wells@one-name.org> > Subject: [SOG-UK] Medal Rolls helpful? > To: <sog-uk@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <79AE38528A0043B19929BB4B35734AF5@merryl1> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > > After years of wondering what my grandfather-in-law did during WW1 I've just > had someone find him in the Red Cross Prisoner records which say John S. > Wells Corp. 2nd Welsh No. 43169 injured at? Somme 16.9.16, born 10.8.78 > Basutoland. His full name was John Anderson Stenson Wells but I'd not known > which names had been used for his Army records, he was born Basutoland on 10 > August but in 1885. > > I've now found his Medal Card as John S. Wells, Welsh R., No. 43169, that he > received the Victory and British medals, but there is no mention of his > actual service or any dates, nothing about him being taken prisoner. It > does include Roll and Page Number as one 'word', being J/1/104B155299. > > Would the Medal Roll give me any extra details? I understand this is kept > at TNA Kew and would appreciate it if anyone visiting could take a look for > me - if it is likely to be useful? > > From > Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. > E-Mail: merryl.wells@one-name.org > GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the SOG-UK list administrator, send an email to > SOG-UK-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the SOG-UK mailing list, send an email to SOG-UK@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOG-UK-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of SOG-UK Digest, Vol 9, Issue 102 > **************************************