Great Uncles Medal Card

[TRACAENA]

Hi any help with this medal card and its interpretation would be great...

Mark

[HarryBettsMCDCM]

Serrved 5th Bn[1/5th] The Suffolk Regiment in the Balkans{Gallipoli}with the number 1936 going Overseas from 10th August 1915* He is listed as Died{so presumably of Disease}

*When 1/5th landed @ Sulva Bay

The Codes by the Medal listings refer to the actual Medal Roll pages now @ the NA

He received the 1914~15 Star British War & Allied Victory Medals

CWGC shows him as:

1936 Private

Frederick Thomas Kent aged 18

Died 21st August 1915[11 Days after arrival]

Son of Mrs Alice Kent of 10 Falmouth Road Newmarket Suffolk

Commemorated on the Helles Memorial

Edited 3 January , 2006 by HarryBettsMCDCM

[Pte1643]

Hi Mark.

You have a fairly straight forward card there.

Private (Pte) Frederick Kent

Service # 1936

5th Suffolk Regt

First Entered Theatre of War "Balkans" on 10th August 1915

Was entitled to the British War Medal (BWM), Victory Medal (VM) and 1914/15 Star (15 Star)

The "Codes" in the column code refer to the Actual Medal index rolls that are kept at the NA in Kew, These are NOT available online.

The Page numbers refer to the actual pages within these "Rolls" into which the entries are logged.

The Code shown as K/1/103 is the code for the Suffolk Regt.

The remarks part simply shows that he "Died", but gives no further explanation, a search of the CWGC website may throw some further light on this.

http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/casualty_...casualty=692966

Hope this helps a little.

All the Best.

Mark.

[Blackblue]

Mark,

2b by the way was Gallipoli. The 1/5th Suffolks were part of the 56th Division which was bought out to the Dardenelles to support the Suvla landings on 6th/7th August 1915. They departed Liverpool via Aquitania on the 30th July and arrived at Mudros on the 6th August. They went ashore at A Beach Suvla on the 10th August. They attacked Kuchuk Anafarta Ova on the 12th August suffering 189 casualties including 11 officers. The attack was largely unsuccessful. You can find more in British Battalions at Gallipoli by Ray Westlake.

A Beach is shown at the top here to the North of Salt Lake.

http://nzsf.com/Gallipoli/mapenlarge.html

Rgds

Tim