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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

Reference

PIN 80

Title
Ministry of Pensions and successors: Selected Second World War Pensions Award Files
Date

1907-1995

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.

Arrangement
Arrangement

Arrangement is by service, rank and alphabetical order by surname

  • Abbreviations used are as follows:
  • GSW - Gun shot wound
  • POW - Prisoner of War

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
  • 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

Subjects
Topics
Internment
Army
Religions
Conflict
Pay and pensions
Navy
Armed Forces (General Administration)
Operations, battles and campaigns
Accruals

Series is not accruing.

Selection and destruction information

This series comprises a two per cent sample of Second World War pensions awards files.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11593/

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