Wound Stripe entitlement record

[Dazscuba]

Just looking to purchase a medal and on the description it mentions Wound Stripe entitlement record. Anybody tell me we’re I may find these records please? 

[ss002d6252]

17 minutes ago, Dazscuba said:

Just looking to purchase a medal and on the description it mentions Wound Stripe entitlement record. Anybody tell me we’re I may find these records please? 

For a British soldier there is no surviving list of these that directly shows this entitlement.

 

There may be entitlement recorded in a service record but other than that official war office casualty lists are the nearest - a man who appeared in a casualty list as wounded was, with a few exceptions, regarded as meeting the criteria for a wound stripe.

 

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… and was refined by Army Council Instruction No. 2075 of 3 November 1916:

“1. The term ‘wounded’ refers only to those officers and soldiers whose names have appeared or may hereafter appear in casualty lists rendered by the Adjutant General’s office at a base overseas, or by the G.O.C. any force engaged in active operations. Reports in hospital lists are not to be regarded as authoritative for this purpose.

 

https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/soldiers/how-to-research-a-soldier/tips-for-interpreting-photographs-of-men-in-uniform/whats-that-on-his-sleeve-a-wound-stripe/

 

Craig

Edited 25 October , 2018 by ss002d6252

[Dazscuba]

Craig thanks 

[charlie962]

The Hospital Admission Records are sometimes(?) marked  with W meaning eligible for wound stripe, I believe.

[ss002d6252]

15 minutes ago, charlie962 said:

The Hospital Admission Records are sometimes(?) marked  with W meaning eligible for wound stripe, I believe.

I wonder if that is possibly the issue that the ACI I mentioned above was meant to deal with.

 

Craig

[charlie962]

17 hours ago, ss002d6252 said:

I wonder if that is possibly the issue that the ACI I mentioned above was meant to deal with.

It must be. There is no way that the Hospital would know the true circumstances of his wounding. They would be able to confirm the type of wound though, eg GSW.

[TEW]

I think I found the seller who uses the phrase 'Comes with a copy of his Wound Stripe entitlement record' or just 'Wound Stripe entitlement record'. In one example he has a copy of a record from FWR (I think) which says 'Listed as wounded on the Casualty Lists' and then adds that he was entitled to wear a wound stripe on account of being published in the Casualty Lists.

 

Craig, was it you who replied to another post of mine that there is a small time frame where a man could have a wound stripe without being published in the lists?

TEW