Help with MIC

[CLeach]

This is my first post on this site so :-

Hello everyone.

I would like some help in deciphering my great grandfathers MIC.

I Understand the 10th Hussars (3503 The same as on his QSA, KSA), Company of Hussars 47774.

Victory medal, British war medal and the 14 star but can anyone help me with just what is written underneath the 14 star supp entry.

The date 30/8/37, Is this a discharge date as he would have been 58 years old by then?

Any help is very much appreciated.

Thank you.

[Armoured Farmer]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

The MIC records various details for your great-grandfather. You've got most of them. However it isn't company of Hussars but Corps of Hussars. Simply put he was still in the 10th Hussars. In early 1917 all Hussar regiments were allocated new numbers for their soldiers. 47774 is simply his new number.

The line beneath his 1914 Star roll entry is C & R issued.... C & R is Clasp and Roses, see here for information : -

http://www.1914-1918.net/grandad/grandad6.htm#14

The Clasp and Roses were issued to him on 30th August 1937, presumably after he applied for them.

Regards

Farmer

[CLeach]

Hello Farmer.

Thank you very much for your help in explaining my great grandfathers medal index card to me.

I have been looking at the line beneath the 1914 star entry for some time but I could not work out what it was.

It does make sense now that you have said that it is C & R Issued.

Do you know why there was a change in number in 1917?

Many thanks and kind regards.

davecoin.

[Armoured Farmer]

Dave,

It was an attempt to rationalise numbering in the army. If you do a search on the MICs of 3503 there are 190 documents returned: -

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documen...mp;mediaarray=*

Some of these are duplications for the same men, but even so it gives an indication of how many men had the same number.

Do the same search on 2503 and there are 284 returns. 1503 gives 319.

Regards

Farmer

[CLeach]

Hello Farmer.

Thanks for the info. I can see why they had to make some changes.

I had assumed that there was only one of each number.

Kind regards,

Davecoin.