sorry me again does anybody know how a medal

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Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 21 Send Message	Jacky	Report	8 Mar 2005 03:55
Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 21 Send Message	hi does anyone know how a medal card for 1 person has more than 1 army number and why on a medal card would the british medal? would have a line through it? ( as if crossed out)??????
Member Since: November 2003 Posts: 1,461 Send Message	Judith	Report	8 Mar 2005 08:14
	It was quite common in WW1 for men to be reassigned to different units if theirs was destroyed in action. In those days (though not now I believe) men were assigned a new number when joining a new regiment. Could also mean they had been discharged and then reinlisted. Difficult to say what the crossed out British medal means without seeing it but I'd say it either means the man wasn't entitled to that medal if it was the printed wording which was crossed through or that its a mark to indicate the medal had been issued if there is a date or other number in that section.