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Ministry of Pensions and successors: Selected Second World War Pensions Award Files
Catalogue reference: PIN 80
What's it about?
PIN 80
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,...
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 80
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Pensions and successors: Selected Second World War Pensions Award Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1907-1995
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Arrangement is by service, rank and alphabetical order by surname
- Abbreviations used are as follows:
- GSW - Gun shot wound
- POW - Prisoner of War
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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
- 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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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71 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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1999 Department of Social Security
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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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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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This series comprises a two per cent sample of Second World War pensions awards files.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11593/
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