Medal Card interpreation

[Guest colinjoan]

Please can anyone explain the remark next to Victory Medal section of MRC " Medals claimed by Admiralty on the 5th A My great grandfather served with RMLI when he was injured and rtd to UK and then Guards Machine Gun Regiment. He died in 1930 so we've been unable to get more info or know of whereabouts of his medals.

Many thanks

[eltoro1960]

I don't know if this of any help but it appears that some of the record keeping by Portsmouth RMLI was of a poor standard -

Unlike the Chatham & Plymouth R.M.L.I. service papers, which are stored at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton, are very complete & filed in their original service number order, the Portsmouth R.M.L.I. service papers are stored in the ADM/157 class at the National Archives (PRO), are incomplete & resorted into year of discharge/surname order. It is unknown who was responsible for the "weeding" of the Portsmouth papers, nor their resorting into year of discharge/surname order, but the plain fact is they are severely dunuded of useful "active service" information, & the resorting was rather poorly completed, many papers being misfiled & many more being missing.

(Army Form B.103 & RND Card Index)

They are missing from 90% of all Portsmouth papers. Without these forms nothing can be found about an individual's movements, sickness, UK Leave or postings whilst serving with the R.N.D.

Best of luck.