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Catalogue description Ministry of Pensions and successors: Selected Second World War Pensions Award Files
| Reference: | PIN 80 |
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| Title: | Ministry of Pensions and successors: Selected Second World War Pensions Award Files |
| Description: |
This series consists of Ministry of Pensions case files of war disability pension awards for pensionable service during the Second World War. The files concern men and officers serving in the Army, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, Royal Marines, mercantile marine and home guard as well as widows and dependents. It also includes some files concerning servicemen or non-combatants who were prisoners of war in the Far East. The 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, material and parental status. |
| Date: | 1907-1995 |
| Arrangement: |
Arrangement is by service, rank and alphabetical order by surname
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| 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: | 71 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1999 Department of Social Security |
| Selection and destruction information: | This series comprises a two per cent sample of Second World War pensions awards files. |
| Accruals: | Series is not accruing. |
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