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Catalogue reference: PIN 71
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PIN 71
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...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PIN 71
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Selected War Pensions Award Files for Service Prior to 1914
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Date (When the record was created)
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1854-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Armed Forces Service Records are in
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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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- 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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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6335 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is not accruing.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11584/
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