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Catalogue description Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Selected War Pensions Award Files for Service Prior to 1914
| Reference: | PIN 71 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Selected War Pensions Award Files for Service Prior to 1914 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Date: | 1854-1979 |
| Related material: |
Armed Forces Service Records are in Division within WO |
| 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 Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, War Pensions Branch, 1953-1966 Ministry of Pensions, Awards Division, 1917-1944 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 War Department, 1855-1857 War Office, 1857-1964 |
| Physical description: | 6335 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Accruals: | Series is not accruing. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The widows or disablement pensions which they drew were granted by the Royal Hospital Chelsea and were paid by the War Office until 1917 when the Ministry of Pensions took responsibility. Royal warrants were issued at intervals to vary conditions and provide for increments. |
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