daggers Posted 6 April , 2015 Share Posted 6 April , 2015 Please excuse ignorance on this. I am looking for anything about an award of the MM to Gunner/Bombardier/Sergeant Thomas Corkill. I have the Gazette details and the MIC details from Ancestry for his trio, andI know that Ancestry do not hold the MM Medal Index Cards. I could buy the National Archives MIC but do not wish to waste the cash on the wrong card - he has one reference WO 372/24/113579, the other WO 372/5/26775. Is there a way of telling which will relate to the MM award, please? Are there other sources? Who holds the medal rolls for MMs? Daggers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPT Posted 6 April , 2015 Share Posted 6 April , 2015 Neither! WO 372/23/88242 will be his MM card - http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D6141543 WO 372/5/26775 is his medal card and WO 372/24/113579 will be a MID, TFE or MSM for a different service number (259). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 6 April , 2015 Share Posted 6 April , 2015 Your inbox is full, tried to send you this. You have probably seen it, but just in case. Click Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggers Posted 6 April , 2015 Author Share Posted 6 April , 2015 Thank you both. The mystery continues, as one of the MIC references gives the man a three figure number - 259 - and elsewhere, including the Merseyside Roll of Honour, his early TF number is given as 1674. This is one of the reasons for asking about the MICs. 1674 fits the renumbering as 685756 better than 259, which should renumber in the early 685***s. Incidentally, Ancestry's SDGW transcription has his birthplace as 'Isle of Arran', not Isle of Man which is where the surname is most frequently found. I shall have to take the plunge and get one of them from the TNA, but which? My option,so I shall sleep on it. Thanks again Daggers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rflory Posted 7 April , 2015 Share Posted 7 April , 2015 I take it that you are aware that he received his MM while serving with B Battery, 277th Brigade, RFA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggers Posted 7 April , 2015 Author Share Posted 7 April , 2015 Dick Yes thanks, he is one of those on the memorial in Garston. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggers Posted 7 April , 2015 Author Share Posted 7 April , 2015 I took the plunge and found that the MIC giving Corkill's number as 259 was for the award of the TF Efficiency Medal, when he was a bombardier. The authorty is given as 'Army Order 7 dated 1-1-09'. This does not explain why his later MICs show his number as 1674 and the later 685756. Were there renumberings between1909 and 1914? D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenland Posted 8 April , 2015 Share Posted 8 April , 2015 I have read this thread with interest and need some advice. The soldier I am researching on our WW1 plaque who fortunately returned safely from France, was awarded the Medaille Militaire by the Govt of France. It is gazetted in the London Gazette of 29 January 1919. I understand there is an equivalent French 'gazette' called the Journal Officiel de la Repub.....etc I can find no mention of him (I believe due to search problems rather than him not being there). The purpose of the search was to establish the reason for this award. Could you direct me to where I might learn more about the background to the award. He served with the RHA/RA. Many thanks for any help given. Glynis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggers Posted 10 April , 2015 Author Share Posted 10 April , 2015 Glynis Welcome to the Forum. May I suggest that you start a new thread, with 'Medaille Militaire' in the title. It is more likely to catch the eye than here. My own non-expert opinion is that allied governments allocated numbers of their awards to the British, and these were parcelled out among divisions, brigades etc. The post-war date of the Gazette, I feel, indicates that this award was not for any specific deed or action, but more likely to be recognition of valuable service. Daggers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenland Posted 11 April , 2015 Share Posted 11 April , 2015 Thank you Daggers, I shall do that. Glynis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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