war medals help please?

Question

does anyone know how i can find out what medals my grandad got in the first world war,i know he had some because i can see them on an old photo of him,but is there somewhere i can check on the internet,what medals he got. most of his family are dead now so i cant ask them and no one knows where they went or what they were for.i know he was in the manchester regiment and thats about all

Answer 1

Being in the Manchester Regiment means he was in the BRITISH ARMY,

so the advice from all who kindly made suggestions from the USA is null and void.

Try this forum, please read the rules before posting, and please post in the relevant section.

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?s=40d00f27fef661a3877cc3c34cd6f9a2&act=idx

Answer 2

Write or call here:

Officers or Soldiers whose regular or reserve service ended between 1921 and 1997

Army Personnel Centre
HQ Secretariat
Historical Disclosures
Mail Point 400
Kentigern House
65 Brown Street
Glasgow
G2 8EX
Tel: [phone], option 1, then option 3

Or go to the Regiment for help:

Tameside Local Studies and Archive Centre
Old Street
Ashton-under-Lyne
OL6 7SG

Tel: [phone]


Website: http://www.tameside.gov.uk/leisure/new/subjects.htm#archives
e-mail:
[e-mail]

(Folks: The Manchester Regiment is in the British Army.)

Answer 3

If he is dead AND you have his service number, you can request a copy of his Service Record from the National Archives and Recods Admin (NARA). All records are kept forever, records are retained from the Revolution. Most are kept at the NARA site outside St. Louis. Try their as well.

Answer 4

WWW.USAMILTARYMEDALS.COM

I used this website to locate my grandmothers medals. You can even order newer ones if you want to make a complete set. Just look at the pictures and see if the pictures match up.

Answer 5

If you can locate his service serial number and his unit, go to the VA and ask for help. You may try to Goggle search any info you have and see what turns up.

Answer 6

Dept. of the Army website or your local recruter might be a help.

Answer 7

www.history.navy.mil/medals
www.acepilots.com/medals/us

Answer 8

I think you will find the Manchester Regiment was I think merged in with 1 KINGS and I think they have merged as well, Kings Regiment was Liverpool, I remember 1 KINGS took over from my Bn in Germany, I think I KINGS were then amalgamated to form The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment. On 1 July 2006 The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment, The King’s Regiment, and The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment, together with their respective companies of The Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers and The King’s and Cheshire Regiment, will merge to form: The Duke of Lancasters Regiment.

So the Duke of Lancasters carry on the honours and traditions of the Manchester's

First Amalgamations 1948-50. In the immediate aftermath of the war Regular battalions from Lancashire and the Borders (albeit full of National Servicemen) served in India, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Somaliland, the Sudan, Eritrea, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Italy, Trieste, Austria, Germany and Norway, in most of which they carried out internal security and/or occupation duties. Peace brought major reductions and in 1948-50 our seven County and City Regiments were reduced to one battalion each; however, active service continued in many parts of the world.



Canal Zone 1951-54. The East Lancashires, Border, South Lancashires and Loyals all carried out tours of internal security in the Canal Zone of Egypt.



Malaya 1951-59. The Manchesters served in Malaya in 1951-54 at the height of the Malayan Emergency, while in 1958-59 the Loyals took part in the final stages of that successful counter-insurgency campaign. The Manchesters lost an officer and 13 men in Malaya.



Korean War 1952-53. In 1952 1st King’s arrived in Korea as part of the UN force defending South Korea from the Chinese communists and their North Korean allies. The war had stabilised in defensive lines but the Kings had a number of engagements including an action on the notorious Hook feature for which they were awarded a battle honour. Three officers and 25 Kingsmen were killed in Korea. In 1953, after the ceasefire, 1st King’s Own also served with the UN in Korea.



The Cold War. The post-war period was also marked by the start of the Cold War, and the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) transmuted from an occupying force to a vital part of the NATO defensive alliance against the Warsaw Pact. The King’s Own, East Lancashires, Border and Manchesters all served in BAOR in the 1950s, at Osnabruck, Hubbelrath, Luneburg, Gottingen, Minden and Wuppertal, and the King’s, Border, South Lancashires and Manchesters all had tours in the isolated city of Berlin.



Battalions also had overseas tours in Trieste, Hong Kong, Singapore and Kenya, from where in 1958 the Kings Own deployed to deal with unrest in Aden and Bahrein.



The New Regiments 1958-59. Further amalgamations took place in the late 1950s, this time combining pairs of the old regiments as follows:



The King’s Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) and The Border Regiment merged at Barnard Castle on 1 October 1959 to form:

The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment.

The King’s Regiment (Liverpool) and The Manchester Regiment merged at Brentwood on June 1958 to form:



The King’s Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool) – the suffix was dropped in 1969.



The East Lancashire Regiment and The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) merged in Hong Kong on 1 July 1958 to form:

The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers)

In its short life The Lancashire Regiment worthily upheld the traditions of its forebears, serving in Hong Kong, Germany, Swaziland, Cyprus, Aden and Malta.



Southern Cameroons. In 1960 the King’s Own Royal Border saw active service when it deployed to provide security during a plebiscite in the West African Trust Territory of Southern Cameroons and to counter communist insurgency.



Kuwait. In 1961 the King’s were airlifted from Kenya to the oil-rich Gulf state of Kuwait where their timely arrival effectively deterred a threatened Iraqi invasion.



British Guiana. In 1963-64 the King’s Own Royal Border flew to British Guiana and deployed to assist the police in controlling inter-communal tension, and in 1965 the King’s took over internal security duties in the colony.



Swaziland. In 1963 the Loyals were flown via Kenya to Swaziland, tasked to support the civil power in the event of disturbances. They were followed there in 1964-65 by the Lancashires, who were also on standby during elections in Basutoland (now Lesotho) and Bechuanaland (now Botswana).



Aden. In 1966 the security situation in Aden deteriorated and reinforcement companies of the Loyals were rotated from Malta, and the following year the Lancashires played a distinguished part in the difficult final months of the bitter anti-terrorist campaign, amassing more operational awards there than any other unit. Companies of 1st King’s Own Royal Border, which was then based in Bahrein, were equally effective, but between them the two battalions lost an officer and six soldiers killed and over 50 wounded.



Libya. Also in 1967, the Loyals deployed to protect British bases in Libya during that year’s Arab-Israeli war. Two years later, after Colonel Gadaffi’s coup, the Lancashires were poised in Cyprus to intervene, but in the event were not required.



British Honduras. In 1967-68 the King’s provided a company group in British Honduras, now Belize, to deter aggression by neighbouring Guatemala, and in 1971 they took part in an amphibious demonstration of British capability in the West Indies for the same purpose. In 1991 the King’s Own Royal Border also served in Belize.



The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment was formed at Dover on 25 March 1970 by merging The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) with the Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) and only six weeks later the 1st Battalion was on active service in Northern Ireland.



Northern Ireland. Between 1970 and 2005 the three Regiments undertook between them 27 battalion-level operational tours in Northern Ireland, seven of them residential, in the course of which 27 of our soldiers were killed by terrorist action and many hundreds were wounded. Among the numerous incidents a few stand out: the post-internment battles of 1971-73, when we fought gunmen and rioters of both persuasions on the squalid streets of West Belfast; the King’s Own Royal Border and the King's participation in Operation Motorman in 1972; the 1990 ‘human bomb’ at Victor 2 checkpoint which killed five Kingsmen and wounded many others; and the 1998 Omagh bomb when the swift and humanitarian response of the Queen’s Lancashires saved many lives. No regiments have made a greater effort to restore order and harmony to the troubled Province, and in recognition of their contribution in 1994 the King’s Own Royal Border were awarded the Wilkinson Sword of Peace.



Cyprus. All three Regiments have been stationed in Cyprus, responsible for the internal security of the British Sovereign Base Areas (SBA), and sometimes serving with the UN Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) on the Green Line between Greek and Turk. The King’s Own Royal Border were based on the Island in 1968-70, 1987-88 and 2001-3; the King’s were present in 1977-78 and 1996-98; the Queen’s Lancashires were stationed there in 1978-80, 1983 and 2004-5.



The Falkland Islands. In 1982 the Queen’s Lancashires, having helped train the units sent to recapture the Islands, were warned for deployment as a follow-up battalion, but in the event only one company deployed. 1st King’s Own Royal Border provided the Falklands and South Georgia Infantry garrison in 1983, as did 1st King’s in 1986. The latter also found Reinforcement Infantry Companies in 1992-93, and the Queen’s Lancashires did likewise in 2004-5.



Germany. For some 40 years up to the collapse of the Warsaw Pact the main effort of the British Army was directed towards the North German Plain, where BAOR stood prepared as a vital part of the NATO Alliance to resist a Soviet Russian invasion of Western Europe. Between 1960 and the withdrawal of Russian troops our Regiments carried out a further eight tours of duty in Western Germany and four in Berlin. The King’s Own Royal Border were stationed in Wuppertal 1962-64, Minden 1974-77, and Berlin 1981-83; the King’s were based in Berlin 1962-64, Minden 1969-71, Osnabrück 1980-85, and Berlin (for the fourth time) in 1988-90; the Loyals were in Wuppertal 1962-64, and the Lancashires in Hilden; the Queen’s Lancashires served in Osnabruck 1970-74, Paderborn 1984-90, and Berlin 1992-94. To set the seal on this period it is pleasing to recall that the King’s were in Berlin when, in 1989, the Wall came down, and following the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact the Queen’s Lancashires had the honour of being the last British battalion in Berlin. It was a bloodless victory, and in December 2005 the Queen’s Lancashires started another tour in Osnabruck in a reunited Germany.



The Balkans. The Queen’s Lancashires carried out peace-keeping operations in Bosnia in 1996, as did the King’s Own Royal Border in 1997-98 and again in 2000, while on account of the Kosovo crisis a company of the King’s Own Royal Border deployed in 1998-99 to Macedonia, where their professionalism was reflected by a second award of the Wilkinson Sword of Peace.



Iraq. The Regular battalions of the King’s and the Queen’s Lancashires, serving together in 19 Mechanised Brigade and both reinforced by TA soldiers of their Regiments, deployed to Basra June-November 2003 in the immediate aftermath of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, bringing a measure of peace and stability to the city and surrounding area. The Queen’s Lancashires lost an officer killed. The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment began a tour in Southern Iraq in October 2005.



Afghanistan. In 2002, following Allied intervention to oust the Taliban from Afghanistan our Territorials produced a composite sub-unit for Force Protection in Kabul.



In addition to the operational tours outlined above, since 1960 battalions have been stationed overseas in Hong Kong, Bahrein, Kenya, Malta and Gibraltar.



The Territorial Battalions. Since World War II our Territorials have experienced at least as much turbulence and change as their Regular comrades, with radical cuts followed by expansion and then renewed mergers. In 1967 the old TA battalions, previously unaffected by the amalgamation of the Regulars, were reduced to cadres and a single battalion of The Lancastrian Volunteers spanned the Regimental areas from the Mersey to the Borders. This later expanded to two battalions, and in 1975 the companies were all restored to their parent Regiments to form the 4th King’s Own Royal Border, 5th/8th King’s and 4th Queen’s Lancashires, the latter two having NATO roles in Germany. This happy state of affairs continued, with minor reduction in the early 90s, until 1999 when a major reduction in the TA Infantry resulted in the merger of the 4th Battalions of The King’s Own Royal Border and The Queen’s Lancashires to form The Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers, and of 5th/8th King’s and 3rd Cheshires to form The King’s and Cheshire Regiment, sub-units retaining their parent Regimental uniform and identity. Since the 1990s many of our TA officers and soldiers have served with the Regular Army in the Balkans, Iraq, Falklands, Kuwait and Afghanistan, often as individual reinforcements to the 1st Battalions of their Regiments.