Catalogue description Ministry of Pensions and successors: Second World War Pensions Award Files of Far Eastern Prisoners of War

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Reference: PIN 91
Title: Ministry of Pensions and successors: Second World War Pensions Award Files of Far Eastern Prisoners of War
Description:

This series comprises Ministry of Pensions and its successors case files of war disability pension awards where pensionable service was in the Far East during the Second World War.

Files contain medical records, accounts of how and where illnesses, injuries, disabilities and fatalities occurred and some individuals' personal accounts of incidents and events. Conduct sheets are included recording place of birth, age, names of parents and siblings, religion, physical attributes, marital and parental status.
Date: 1915-1989
Arrangement:

This series is arranged by service, rank and alphabetical order by surname

  • Abbreviations used in this series are as follows:
  • GSW - Gun shot wound
  • POW - Prisoner of War
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

Department of Health and Social Security, War Pensions and Industrial Injuries Division, 1971-1973

Department of Health and Social Security, War Pensions Department, 1968-1971

Department of Social Security, 1988-2001

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, War Pensions Branch, 1953-1966

Ministry of Pensions, Awards Division, 1917-1944

Ministry of Pensions, Awards Division, 1951-1952

Ministry of Pensions, Awards Division (Blackpool), 1949-1951

Ministry of Pensions, General Administration Division, 1917-1944

Ministry of Pensions, General Division, 1944-1949

Ministry of Pensions, Great War, Civilian and Mercantile Awards Division, 1944-1949

Ministry of Pensions, New Services Awards Division, 1944-1949

Ministry of Pensions, Pensions Division, Awards, 1952-1953

Ministry of Pensions, Pensions Policy and General Division, 1949-1953

Ministry of Pensions, Rehabilitation and Welfare and London Awards Division, 1949-1951

Ministry of Social Security, War Pensions Department, 1966-1968
Physical description: 170 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

Department of Social Security
Selection and destruction information: All files relating to Far Eastern prisoners of war have been selected for permanent preservation either in this series or in the two per cent general sample of Second World War pensions award files in PIN 80
Accruals: Series is not accruing.

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