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il have to get a friend to do its i just dont have a camera that can do those sorts of clear pics but hopefuly i can get it done in the next few days and il post em uo!thanks again! :beer:

nope they were right to mention it! made me have a good look at it but cant see anything to be honest!iv a erased MM and you can clearly see where it was erased and the ghost of the lettering etc! :beer:

well i took my new magnifying glass out and had a god old strain of my eyes! cant see any ghost impression of digits or letters,i got a bit of water on the offending "R" and well it came away with a light rub(fear not i didnt clean it!!) il get a friend of mine to take more pics of it as i honestly cant see any ghost letter!plus why re-name it to the army service corps???? thanks though!! :beer:

haha this is also true!!!but your right about knowing that its renamed and that another collector doenst get burned if they dont know there re-named!! :beer:

its good to hear your not melting them down! the renaming of the medals no matter what we thing is part oft he medals history!!!!!at least they will be in a home now!! :beer:

very interesting though its a REAL shame that these will go to the smelter as they are original medals!!!

not surprised as sadly my last 4 research projects seem to have hit a similar brick wall!!!ah well!!thanks though!!! :beer:

could anyone help me with me finding his service records as i just cant find anything on ancestry and iv spent a few nights looking but not even sure im doing it right!!!! any help or suggestions would be great!! :beer:

yeah i was thinking that myself! going to take a look at ancestry again tonight and see if i cant find his service records and pension records as we has invalided out of the army!

thanks for that im planing to get a few other people researched so i can add that to the list i do know he was very badly wounded in the left knee so much so he got invalided out of the army! :beer:

amazing info on that!!!! amazing what one name on the back of a medal can bring up!! :beer:

and MIC card!!!

and his wound badge! also a nice sweetheart cap badge for the lancs!!!

his trio! sorry for the pic i had to do them with my camera on my phone!!

although it was only this year is started to get into british medal collecting i always knew we still had my great grandfather medals from ww1! he was in the 1/east lanc regiment!! and only joined in 1911 as it was the army or being a farm laborer!! i didnt know to much only that he got wounded very early in the war and that this meant he to invalided out of the army by i think 1917(and from what my grand says it was the best mornings work he ever did cos he got to hang out paris for 6 months!! ) so when i finally got to see them at the start of the month it was really strange but really cool as while i have other people medals this is my family's only medals! \my uncle currently has them but while he isnt to interested in them he is interested in family history so hopefully they will stay in the family! i do have on question,iv been trying to find his enlistment and pension records on ancestry but so far i have been able to find a match!i know he enlisted in 1911 as i have a copy of his soldiers book and a pic of him just after he enlisted(which handily is over in my girlfriends house and shes away for a month!!) so is there any chance of an help to narrow him down or even a point in the right direction would be great! so any help would be fantastic!thanks and here is the pic of his 1914 star where he was wounded and his wound badge which is listed lost on the MIC card!!! ;)

here yah go!!!!!! :beer:

so is it to be awarded for death?if so how is then is it to be worn???by next of kin?

in ireland they go for anything up to E550(not sure what online dealers do them for though!) how ever they are pretty common and i reckon there over valued!(you can find them all the time at fairs and dealers shops and the quantity of them hasnt gone down but price has gone up!) but with a bit of family history that will help the value though you need iron clad providence to prove that the medal is to the family medal otherwise its just a story im afraid!

thats why i cant find anythinks!thanks for the info though!il try the route of contacting the reg mesuem!thanks again!

is this the right section as nothing seems to be coming up!!!!!and the annoying thing is i have seen other people with the same first or last name awarded the BEM!!!!! http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/browse-refine.asp?CatID=22&searchType=browserefine&pagenumber=1&query=*&queryType=1 (the national archives always stump me!!!!) thanks for any help!! oh and it was announced in the LG in july of 46!!

really!!!Fantastic il take look so!!!thanks for that!! :beer:

and the rest of the rim! so is there any chance of find out why it was awarded? maybe unit history local papers if i can find him?? thanks for any help!! :beer:

name on rim!!

pretty sure i know the answer but never hurts to ask!!picked up this nice BEM group to a S/SGT Claude Paterson R.A.S.C on another forum and while its not to any mad cool unit i really wanted a BEM group and this fit the bill but i was wondering i have where it announces where he has been awarded the BEM in the london gazette but not why!i was reading that the later war BEMs just like the late war ww1 MMs dont have the citation as to why it was awarded!is there any hope of finding out how it was won???any help would be great!!

thanks for that mike!thought it was something like that!!!still interesting that the serial number on the number is the lower one!have to find out about the london regiment might be able to find out more about him!!thanks again!!! :beer: