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From: John Chapman <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] Annotation on Medals Card - Class Z
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:40:31 +0100
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Hi Ian

The medal card is an index not a record in itself. Sometimes a fact is
recorded, sometimes not eg often MM references are not included. As far
as their discharge class is concerned it all depends upon the conditions
they signed up for and when they were discharged. If they were still in
the army when the British War and Victory Medal rolls were compiled then
their class would be unknown and unlikely to appear on the medal card.
Equally if they had signed on as a regular they would have been
discharged to classes A B C or D depending on how much of their agreed
service they had actually served.

Regards

John





In message <000301c4baef$33aa37c0$>, Ian White
<> writes
>Hello again John,
>
>Some Medals Cards have the annotation "Class Z" but others do not. What
>is the significance of this, in other words, why would some men be put
>in this class but others were not ? What determined the difference ?
>In the case of my father-in-law, he was put in Class Z but his brother
>was not !
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Ian White in Ottawa, Canada.
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "John Chapman"
><>
>To: "Ian White" <>
>Cc: <>
>Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 8:01 PM
>Subject: Re: [WW1] Annotation on Medals Card>
>> It means he was transferred to the Class Z Reserve
>> This was used to effectively rid men of any further military
>>obligation other than to notify the authorities of any change of
>>address or to be recalled should war break out again.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> John
>
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John Chapman

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