War pensions recordsPIN 711854-1979Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Selected War Pensions Award Files for Service Prior to 1914
This series contains personal case files on disablement pensions arising from service in the Army or Navy before the First World War and case files concerning widows of such servicemen.
The files contain medical records (in some cases including X-rays), accounts of how and where illnesses or injuries occurred and men's own accounts of incidents they were involved in. Conduct sheets are included recording place of birth, age, names of parents and siblings, religion, physical attributes, marital and parental status.