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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] Nurses MM
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 18:53:19 +0100
In-Reply-To: <002501c1107b$741c0620$a87a7ad5@pshazgqf>



>"> I have also seen Majors and Colnels with the MM, but, presumably, they
>obtained it while they were Captains and were then promoted."
>>
>### I'll pay 1 cash for every WW1 London Gazette page reference which
>anybody can give me, which includes a Captain in the British Army being
>awarded a Military Medal whilst gazetted to that rank.

Iain stated that the MM was for acts of valour by Captains and below. So
this implies that a Captain would receive an MM. But Captains did not
stay Captains, but were - if they survived - promoted. And they did not
them lose their medals already gained.

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Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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