I have looked at several medal rolls at Kew and have not found any extra information. Tricia Adam Sent from my iPad > 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 > **************************************