TNA, WO 373 Recommendations for Honours & Awards

Fantastic tool I will say. But probably because the one making the files was not good a geography I found a minor mistake WO 373/92 also contain citations from French Indo China. Guess SAIGON was not famous at the time unlike later on

 

Just giving this a bump. I have been looking at Awards and Honours lately and ahve been using the Ancestry database, which has some glaring holes.

Mark

 

Is there a way to find a citation (if there is one) giving the particular reason for one of these awards please?

I have just been looking at an entry in WO 373 / 27 (Middle East, Greece and Crete), 30 December 1941: Sgt George Johnstone, 812510, 154 L.A.A. Btty, R.A., award of Military Medal. It looks like there should be a link on the left but clicking on it just says 'Documents Online closed'. Possibly the link has been broken by the National Archives?

 

The citations listed in the file WO373/27 can be downloaded in their entirety for free from here: WO 373; Middle East (Greece and Crete) | The National Archives.

Mark

 

Dear All

Is there any way of accessing the Recommendations for Honours and Awards other than paying £3.50 a pop to the NA for an electronic copy?

I am looking to add details of awards to my 2RUR site at 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles in WW2: 2 RUR Honours and Awards (and is there any way of tracing "Mentioned in Despatches" reports?).

Any advice/assistance would be greatly appreciated...

Many thanks.

Quis Separabit


The Military Cross
T/Major WD Tighe-Wood, WO 373/48/189
T/Capt. J Montgomery, WO 373/48/190
W/Lieut SM Lennox, WO 373/48/191
W/Lieut R Lyttle, WO 373/49/752
T/Capt CG Alexander, WO 373/54/340
A/Major AC Bird, WO 373/53/264
T/Major JCSG de Longueuil, WO 373/51/346
W/Lieut RD Purcell, WO 373/53/463
7007530 RSM Fleming S., WO 373/50/501

The Distinguished Conduct Medal

7010920 Sjt Sharkey W., WO 373/50/100
7020028 Cpl O'Reilly C., WO 373/48/235


The Military Medal

6986230 Rfn Charles A., WO 373/50/356
7014577 Rfn Long J., WO 373/48/424
7011693 L/S McCann R., WO 373/48/422
7012171 Rfn McGlennon H., WO 373/48/425
7019401 Cpl Reid W., WO 373/50/355
7010456 Sjt Cochrane S., WO 373/54/1027
14401161 Rfn Green W., WO 373/52/466
7012057 Sjt Rainey R., WO 373/53/715
7022463 Cpl Watkin A., WO 373/53/904
6982606 Cpl Lambourne D. WO 373/55/526


Croix de Guerre with Gilt Star
T/Capt WH Baudains, MM WO 373/186/1236


Croix de Guerre with Bronze Star
7012385 Cpl Ince J. WO 373/186/1676

 

Brilliant - thank you very much DBF, little bit of homework for the weekend sorted....

Quis Separabit

 

Thanks again DBF, I couldn't wait until the weekend and have now tracked down most of the WW" commendations although unfortunately some of the records are missing when looking at the full Catalogue records which appear to be incomplete including:

T/Major JCSG de Longueuil, WO 373/51/346
7014577 Rfn J Long, WO 373/48/424
7011693 L/S R McCann, WO 373/48/422
7012171 Rfn H McGlennon, WO 373/48/425
7019401 Cpl W Reid, WO 373/50/355
7010456 Sjt S Cochrane, WO 373/54/1027

If anyone knows how I can gain easy access to these and/or know of any others that are missing would be greatly appreciated.....

Otherwise the 2 RUR awards from WW2 that I have a record of have now been added at 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles in WW2: 2 RUR Honours and Awards

Quis Separabit


P.S. In the meantime, I found a slightly different way of tracking down images of Recommendation which I personally found slightly easier/quicker which for anyone interested was:

1. Search for the individual using their name and regiment (or full refence if held e.g. WO 373/50/356)
Recommendation for Award for Charles, Andrew Rank: Rifleman Service No: ... | The National Archives

2. Scroll down and make a note of the "Folio Number"


3. In a separate browser window eg WO 373/50 is and click on the relevant Catalogue Entry at the top, in this case:
WO 373; 21 December1944 (part)-1 February 1945
WO 373; 21 December1944 (part)-1 February 1945 | The National Archives

4. Scroll down and click on the "Preview an image of this record" link then select a page number at or near the "Folio Number" (in this case Page 559 brings up Folio "Page 551") and then scroll on the next few pages to find the correct Folio Number and specific record....


This approach means that you don't have to scroll through every single page to try and find your particular page and can then then take screenshot of the image without having to add to basket etc.....

Slightly trickier with the MBE and Legion d'Honneur records as they didn't have Folio Numbers and so way I approached this was, rather than scrolling through every single page, to look for distinguishing features in the Recommendation Card on the first (watermarked) page and then look out for similar features on the group pages summary at the bottom and use the green arrows to scroll through the pages 5/6 at a time (still a long process for documents with hundreds of pages but you can spot obvious mismatches and means have to view far fewer pages.....




Hope this helps.....