Medal card symbols

[Kenneth Wheeler]

Can anyone please tell me what a X (cross) with four dots (one dot in each angle of the X ) means - when placed against Cpl on a medal card? Does it mean “Acting” or “Lance” or what?

Thanks, Ken 

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

It means that the details on that row of the card are the ones engraved on his medals.

It's nothing to do with acting or Lance.

The proper name for the reference mark is...erm... Reference Mark!

 

You can insert into Windows documents by going to:

 

Character Map (Tick the 'Advanced' box)

Character Set - Unicode

Group By - Unicode Subrange - General Punctuation

Select Malgun, Malgun Gothic, MS Gothic or Times New Roman font ( It doesn't seem to appear  some of the commoner fonts, like Arial, but once displayed, you can copy, then paste then format into your usual preferred font).

 

The symbol appears (in my system anyway)  6 rows down, 2nd from right. (Confirmed as Unicode U+203B : "Reference Mark")

You can Select, Copy, then Insert into word processors, spreadsheets, websites, forums etc.

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Edited 21 January , 2019 by Dai Bach y Sowldiwr

[Kath]

The mark in the Cemetery file is very regular.

I wonder if it's a stamp.

 

Kath.

[Kenneth Wheeler]

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

1 minute ago, Kath said:

The mark in the Cemetery file is very regular.

I wonder if it's a stamp.

 

Kath.

Can you show an example?

[Kenneth Wheeler]

This is the entry on the medal card of my great uncle, who I thought was a lance corporal. Ken 

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

Kenneth,

His medals would be engraved with 2 Lond R. Cpl. 2748, and his name, ( usually only Surname, and Forename Initials).

Edited 21 January , 2019 by Dai Bach y Sowldiwr

[Kenneth Wheeler]

Thank you for this. Would that have definitely been a Corporal and not (as I always thought) a Lance Corporal?

in Pro Patria Mori by Alan MacDonald; the history of the 56th Division London Regiment at Gommecourt on 1st July 1916, my great uncle is listed amongst the dead as a “Lance Corporal”.

 Ken 

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

5 minutes ago, Kenneth Wheeler said:

Would that have definitely been a Corporal and not (as I always thought) a Lance Corporal?

That is what was engraved on the medals.

But I see that the CWGC have him recorded as a Lance Corporal and he would be commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial as such.

I can't see a service record for him I'm afraid, which would have proven the case one way or the other.

On balance, circumstantial evidence suggests Lance Corporal.

[Kath]

38 minutes ago, Dai Bach y Sowldiwr said:

Can you show an example?

Post 34 -  I stumbled across the symbol (on a page from one of the many CEFSG Binder Files).  I can’t remember which Cemetery file I was looking at, I just thought to take a screenshot.

https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/193612-self-inflicted-wound-death/?page=2&tab=comments#comment-2724516

 

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

1 hour ago, Kath said:

 

https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/193612-self-inflicted-wound-death/?page=2&tab=comments#comment-2724516

 

Yes it's used there in the same context as you would an asterisk. It's the same symbol, just rotated 45°

[Kath]

11 minutes ago, Dai Bach y Sowldiwr said:

Yes it's used there in the same context as you would an asterisk. It's the same symbol, just rotated 45°

It is very neat which made me wonder if a stamp was used.

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

1 hour ago, Kath said:

It is very neat which made me wonder if a stamp was used.

Yes, it looks that way