Medals

[Guest craig lewis]

Hi all,

firstly I posted my first message yesterday about HMT Othonna(my great grandfather was one of the men killed on it in 1917) and was gobsmacked with the detail of replies I had, so here goes my second question.

I have now found some information about medals awarded to my great grandfather, the problem is that the paperwork I have has abbreviations for the medals and I want to know what these abbreviations mean.

They are as follow:- St.

V.

B.

Am I correct in assuming that these are Star, Victory and British War medals?

Also where it say "how disposed of" it says:- Ww What does this mean? Is it War widow? Because I assume that the medals would have been awarded posthumously.

Under other "remarks" it says:- I.C.666/1917 Does this also mean anything in particular?

Thanks in advance to everyone and I apologise for my ignorance but I'm finding my whole research on WW1 fascinating.

Cheers

Craig

[HarryBettsMCDCM]

With respect to the Medals the abbreviations are as you suspect.

[RNCVR]

Hi all,

firstly I posted my first message yesterday about HMT Othonna(my great grandfather was one of the men killed on it in 1917) and was gobsmacked with the detail of replies I had, so here goes my second question.

Under other "remarks" it says:- I.C.666/1917 Does this also mean anything in particular?

Cheers

Craig

This entry "Refers to relevant N.L. - wills paper." Not 100% sure what N.L. means tho.

Bryan

[John Morcombe]

Under other "remarks" it says:- I.C.666/1917 Does this also mean anything in particular?

I.C. = Indent Casualty.

666 would be his register number entry in the Inspector of Seaman's Wills.

I.C.666/1917 would be found at the top of his final balance of payments form sent to his Nok (residue of pay & balance of accounts).

John M