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Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Selected War Pensions...

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

PIN 71

Title
Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Selected War Pensions Award Files for Service Prior to 1914
Date

1854-1979

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.

Related material

Armed Forces Service Records are in

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • 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

Subjects
Topics
Army
Marriage and divorce
Religions
Conflict
Pay and pensions
Armed Forces (General Administration)
Operations, battles and campaigns
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.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11584/

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