Highest rank to receive medals

[tootrock]

Were campaign medals issued to all ranks who served overseas?

Ancestry does not seem to show an MIC for Douglas Haig!

What was the highest rank to qualify.

Martin

[27thBN]

Well all ranks from as said Field Marshall D Haig to Pte F Burke and all in between.Maybe his MIC card is missing i have a few chaps also that are missing their MICs as well

MC

[David B]

The only card on Earl Haig is a M.I.D. award card.

David

[27thBN]

yes you are correct i also had a look, did find french ,rawlinson and others Mids they are also in services of officers 1920 as well they would be .Probably taken out ??

MC

[per ardua per mare per terram]

Kitchener is on Ancestry.

1 of Rawlinson's MiDs on Ancestry

On UK National Archives site:

French, J D P Corps Regiment No Rank Expeditionary Force Field Marshal Catalogue reference WO 372/7

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documen...p;resultcount=1

Haig, Sir D Corps Regiment No Rank 17th Lancers Lieutenant General Staff Field Marshal Catalogue reference WO 372/8

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documen...p;resultcount=1

Rawlinson, Henry Seymour Corps Regiment No Rank Major General General WO 372/16

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documen...;resultcount=10

The UK National Archives listings are still more comprehensive than Ancestry.

[Stebie9173]

There is a story of the "famous" MICs being removed from the cabinets some time between the NA digitisation and the Ancestry digitisation, and never making it back again....

Steve.

[Muerrisch]

Your actual Majesty [as Alf Garnett might have said] outranked the FMs and he got the odd gong.

[Chris_Baker]

Haig's MIC is no different to most other Old Contemptibles. 14 Star, BWM, Victory. Clasp & roses. Emblem. Of course, the back is not shown on the DocsOnline version. Wonder what happened to it? Perhaps we'll see it on eBay one day.

[jon_armstrong]

Kitchener is on Ancestry.

What is it indexed as? I looked for him last night and couldn't find him... only his nephew HEC Kitchener who succeeded him to the Earldom.

[per ardua per mare per terram]

What is it indexed as?

Earl Kitchener, Rank Field Marshal. On the back indicates that there had also been an enquiry about a 1914 Star for Lord Roberts.

[jon_armstrong]

Ah got it now, thanks.

Had expected to see him under his given name rather than his title.

I guess the clerk who filled out the card thought that was too familiar!

[per ardua per mare per terram]

His title was his correct name and in a heirarchical society it was not unusual for it to be used. The idea of being familiar with a Field Marshal, let alone an earl was unlikely to occur to most clerks in their writing.

[per ardua per mare per terram]

Your actual Majesty [as Alf Garnett might have said] outranked the FMs and he got the odd gong.

Indeed so and his MIC has been previously posted to the forum. As have lesser fry like WS Churchill and David Lloyd George.

[David B]

At least they are a bit eglitarian here. No matter what rank they are just in alphabetical order, like everyone else

David

[per ardua per mare per terram]

Your actual next crowned Majesty [King George VI] is on the naval medal roll, but his BWM & VM were issued by the RAF.

[whiterose]

I did wonder if all the top people mentioned had to apply for their medals like other officers.

What I have found interesting although off topic are the MICs for a certain B L Montgomery of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.

[27thBN]

interesting about kitchener mic being under this title well done that man for finding it MC