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Run/Deserted and Forfeiture of Medals


PhilB

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Is Run the same as Deserted? This sailor ran after the war had ended - would that mean forfeiture of campaign medals? I`ve ploughed through Williamson`s book without success!

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 RUN is the standard navy term for a deserter.

I would expect his medals to have been forfeited

The medal rolls should show this

 

Ray

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  • 2 years later...

There seems to have been an amnesty on the part of the War Office after WW1. I think those men who deserted, reenlisted and confessed had their prior service restored postwar, with the result that they could claim for medals. I don't know if the Admiralty had a similar rule for men who re-enlisted and were duly pardoned.

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WSC did not seem too keen on a post-war amnesty for deserters.

  https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1920/jul/13/desertion#S5CV0131P0_19200713_HOC_18

 

I believe the Admiralty effectively granted an early-war amnesty to men who, in desertion, returned to the service to continue their service. They appear to have been handled in the same way as former RN/RM personnel (engagements expired but not being reservists) who volunteered to resume their service in the early weeks of the war. I have not been able to find a reference for this policy.

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1 hour ago, horatio2 said:

WSC did not seem too keen on a post-war amnesty for deserters.

  https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1920/jul/13/desertion#S5CV0131P0_19200713_HOC_18

 

I believe the Admiralty effectively granted an early-war amnesty to men who, in desertion, returned to the service to continue their service. They appear to have been handled in the same way as former RN/RM personnel (engagements expired but not being reservists) who volunteered to resume their service in the early weeks of the war. I have not been able to find a reference for this policy.

 

August 1914

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Craig

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You will also find material at Kew under references ADM 1/8390/257 & 259 and ADM 1/8405/457. I would also assume that there would be more references in ADM 12.

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