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Series
Ministry of Pensions and successors: Selected First World War Pensions Award Files
Catalogue reference: PIN 26
What's it about?
PIN 26
This series contains a representative selection of case files of the Ministry of Pensions and successors concerning war disability pension awards. The cases selected cover all types of disability pensions awarded after the First World War, and...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PIN 26
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Pensions and successors: Selected First World War Pensions Award Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1871-1950
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains a representative selection of case files of the Ministry of Pensions and successors concerning war disability pension awards.
The cases selected cover all types of disability pensions awarded after the First World War, and include files for serving men and officers, army, navy and air force, widows and dependants, and nurses.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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Catalogue entries for this series have been enhanced as part of a project supported by Volunteers, including the Friends of The National Archives; completed in March 2017.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
- The files have been transferred in two major tranches:
- PIN 26/1-203. These pieces (transferred to the PRO in 1975) have been listed in order of the date of termination of pension, or death; details of the type of award and other relevant information are indicated by a selection code letter.
- PIN 26/204-22756. These pieces (transferred to the PRO between 1989 and 1997) have been listed slightly differently. The list gives the covering dates of each file, the name of the individual, and an indication of the nature of the disability. In some cases, abbreviations have been used to indicate this, and are as follows:
- CSOM - Chronic Supperative Otitis Media
- DAH - Disease of action of the heart
- GP - Gun-powder injury
- GSW - Gun-shot wound
- ICT - Inflammation of Connective Tissue
- POW - Prisoner of War
- PNO PUO PVO - Pyrexia of unknown origin
- TB - Tuberculosis
- VDH - Valvular disease of heart
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- 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 Policy and General Division, 1949-1953
- Ministry of Pensions, Rehabilitation and Welfare and London Awards Division, 1949-1951
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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22829 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- An alphabetical coded index is available for the first 203 files in this series. Please speak to staff at the enquiry desk for the precise location.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Following expert advice, a 2% representative selection of surviving material has been made for permanent preservation.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11539/
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