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Advice/help on Medal Cards please?

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windigo

proper brummie kid
Hello - I'm trying to find as much as I can on my great uncle (Harold Theodore Emerson) and grandfather (George Cuthbert Emerson) - I've found the following "Medal Cards" for both of them but am confused as to how I can find any more info. If anyone can translate the cards/point me in the right direction, I'd be very grateful - thank you!

Wendy :)

GEORGE CUTHBERT EMERSON b1893 - My mum still has 2 badges of his: Artists Rifles OTC and Royal Warwickshire Regiment. There are a lot of comments on his card but I can't see his Regiment Number and don't really understand what it all means! I've attached a copy here and also photos of him in his uniform/s which might help?

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/windi/g_c_emerson_ww1_medal_rolls.jpg
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/windi/grandpaww1.jpg
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/windi/hatbadge.jpg
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/windi/imperialservice.jpg
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/windi/grandpa.jpg
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/windi/gpa-2.jpg


HAROLD THEODORE EMERSON b1897
From what my mum tells me he was a despatch rider who died in the 1st World War. I have found his info on the War Commission Graves website and this medal card too. I'm not sure where else I can look for other info?

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/windi/hte1.jpghttps://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/windi/haroldtheodoreemersonmedals.jpg

I hope I haven't put too much information here!!
 
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G C Emerson, was in the RAMC Territorial Force and his picture has him wearing his Imperial Service badge, service number 2227 ?
he then went into what looks like the 28th London Regt, 6489, before being Commissioned into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment as a 2nd LT (officers had no numbers). Try and find more out tomorrow... off to work soon.

Terry
 
Thank you Terry!! I really do appreciate your help, I'm afraid I know nothing at all about the military - I'm trying to learn by reading different websites but just end up getting in a muddle.

I'll check back again.

Wendy :)
 
My grandad was in the Royal Warwickshires, Frank Gray , I have his four medals inc. the MM - The Military Medal
which is inscribed 'for bravery in the field' , he was apparently a stretcher bearer who repeatedly crawled out under heavy fire to drag the wounded to safety
 
I don't know about you izzy (love your name by the way:D), but I can't begin to imagine what life must have been like for the soldiers in WW1 (or 2 for that matter). You must be really proud of your grandad.
 
windigo said:
I don't know about you izzy (love your name by the way:D), but I can't begin to imagine what life must have been like for the soldiers in WW1 (or 2 for that matter). You must be really proud of your grandad.
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As a child in the 1950's I remember always looking at his medals, they were in a big framed embroidered picture of the Royal Warwk's emblem with the antelope etc. sadly the medals were removed from the frame & the embroidery thrown away after he died aged 94 & I never discovered why.
at least the medals are safe!
 
George Cuthbert Emerson's name was published in the B'ham Daily Post casualty list 24 May 1917 as being wounded. The actual date of wounding would be around a week to two weeks prior the publication date.

Harold T Emerson, was originally in the Royal Engineers and he qualified for his 1914-1915 Star Medal when he went into a theatre of War on 5 November 1914. He was later commissioned into the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. He was Killed in Action serving with the 8th Bn. Loyal North Lancs on 10 July, 1916, during an attack towards the rear of the village of Ovillers la Boiselle (Somme). The 8th Bn were fighting along a trench towards the rear of Ovillers and were counter-attacked several times and made little progress ..... casualties 247. One of these would have been 2nd Lt H T Emerson, his body was never found and he is now commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial

Terry
 
Hi, Terry, Does the Birmingham Post have a internet site,with 1914-18 war casualties, listed. Regards Jackie
 
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