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Doubt it though he deserved one for having that op. I'd say!
Jan

This is a cheeky one threadjacking your thread Jan ,but.........
Can anyone spot this fellas medal card please,I sure cant.

Name: Hubert George Roberts
Estimated birth year: abt 1873
Age at Enlistment: 41
Birth Parish: Pembroke Dock
Birth County: Pembrokeshire
Document Year: 1914
Regimental Number: 17365
Number of Images: 9


Or did he become an officer?Do they list Osifers medals on Ancestry?

Told you I was rubbish on Army stuff !!

Edit,cancel that as it says he was deemed unfit to be a soldier due to needing an op on his (ouch) left testicle.

So he wont have any medals will he?

Hi Jan
No deletes from me either
Good luck
Best wishes
Barbara

The Medal Office only replace WW2 service medals to service veterans or if deceased to the member of the family who now holds the medal, under certain circumstances where the medal is lost through street theft,burglary or house fire.

The office is unable to replace any medals before WW2 under any circumstances

Sorry Jan

Thanks for looking Ladykira, I can see why you have Posted this. However he isn't my Albert - mine died of TB in the 30's sadly.
Jan

Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945 - soldier details

Name: Albert BOWEN Memorial Scroll

Purchase scroll




Branch at death: Infantry

Regiment, Corps etc.: The London Irish Rifles

Branch at 01/09/39:

Regiment, Corps etc.:

Last name: Bowen

First name(s): Albert

Initials: A E

Birthplace: Newport

Residence: Newport

Rank: Rifleman

Number: 3910646

Date died: 22 May 1944

Theatre of war: Italy


Army Roll of Honour 1939-45 database © Naval and Military Press Ltd 2006.

Thanks Choccy - I have checked that out and saved it to Albert,
Cheers.
jan

British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920
Name: Albert Bowen
Regiment or Corps: Royal Garrison Artillery
Regimental Number: 30117



Source Information:

Ancestry.com. British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: Army Medal Office. WWI Medal Index Cards. In the care of The Western Front Association website.

Thank you Ladykira.
Jan

I will not delete apart from earlier when I double posted by mistake

Thanks Viv - I don't either but I know some people do hence the plea!
How come I haven't annoyed you yet? Must be slipping ...
I am going to start a separate thread about medals, I think that makes more sense.

Regards

jan

I rarely delete things Jan ,so your safe with anything from me.
I really dont see the point in posting info and then deleting,unless the poster has REALLY teed me off,which you never have and cant really imagine you doing so!
Medals etc ,sorry cant help,not my Forte is Army stuff,still trying to work out what is for that matter...
viv

Might I ask one more favour please? Would you all mind leaving your posts on for a week? Need to absorb and record everything!
Does anyone happen to know if I can get copies of medals now I have these details?
Thanks yet again!
jan

I did, thank you. Well, at least I thought it was a good bet - I knew he was already a soldier before WW1 and was born in 1890 in Hereford.
Jan

so did you have Albert in 1911?

Thanks for the "good luck" wishes but I have the Legges down to a "T"! Alice was born Kington but her father wisely was born in Clungunford Shropshire, which kind of narrows it down somewhat!!
Can't wait to share all this with dad tomorrow!
Regards
Jan

You found it Barbara not me...

And Jan..
Good luck with the Legge,s,I researched an Alice legge(born Bristol) married a Murphy from Cardiff , for a friend and OH DEAR it was difficult.....................

Barbara and Viv, thanks, missed the ref to Wainder Rd in my excitement! Doesn't seem to exist now, but could be Windsor Rd. i guess. But the Maindee area clinches it anyway.
Appreciate all your time so much.
jan

Wow, only went for a bite to eat and look what you lot have been up to!! Thank you SO much. I extend the thanks to all of you. I am so pleased, with Albert Bowen I had pretty much given up then had one last go.

It's definitely him - Choccy, where on earth did you see all that? He had the sense to marry someone with the name of Alice Legge, a godsend when researching Bowens in Herefordshire and Wales! You must have looked long and hard, bless you.

It's especially precious to me as my Dad was orphaned when he was just 10 - he's 86 now - and has next to nothing about his father, even his medals were "acquired" by another family member sadly.

Thanks all from the bottom of my heart.

Jan x

I shall go back now and look more myself.

Hi Viv
I think you have found it
The Address looks like 8 Waindeer Road Maindee Newport Mons
Barabara