London Gazette

[Ken Lees]

I am currently searching through the London Gazette to extract MC Citations for officers of 'my' battalion, the 9th King's Liverpool Regt.

I already have some of the Gazette dates but I can't remember which dates are Birthday/New Year Honours etc., for which there are no published citations.

Does anyone have a list of those Gazette dates which will have no citations? That will save me looking for things that don't exisit and cut down on at least one of the frustrations of using the Gazette online.

Thanks in advance,

Ken

[Stebie9173]

I don't have the exact dates to hand but anything between 3rd and 6th June in any year, and 1st to 4th January are generally the ones. I know that the 1916 NYH were dated 14-1-1916. These are "street" dates, the earlier publishing date by which the LG searches are generally 3 days earlier and will often be in December for NYH. If you have the Gazette issue on screen for the annoucment head to page 1 - it will often say New Year or King's Birthday Honours.

Steve.

[Ken Lees]

Thanks Steve,

I was beginning to suspect those were the dates.

When I quote a Gazette date, should I give the search date or the date printed on the first page of the Gazette? I currently have both (e.g. 11/1/16 & 14/1/16) and they are both the same Gazette. It confuses me and my database when I have both.

I'm tempted to use the date printed on the Gazette page.

Ken

[Stebie9173]

The MICs for DCMs, MMs, MIDs, etc. use the print dates, I believe. The earlier date is obviously good to have to get back to the Gazette pages. Officially, I think the later date is correct.

Steve.

[Ron Clifton]

The Gazette was published weekly on a Friday, and I think still is. Interim issues, which the majority dealing with promotions and awards were, are given their actual date and are titled "nth Supplement to the London Gazette of (the previous Friday)".

Within the Gazette, you will often find an earlier date, as if at the top of a letter, which is the date on which the War Office (etc) issued the text as, in effect, a press release.

The date "gazetted" is the actual date of publication of the relevant Supplement.

To complicate matters even further, may entries backdate promotions or seniority to a yet earlier date. This gives the paymasters the authority to backdate any increases in pay.

Confusing, isn;t it?

Ron