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Series
Ministry of Pensions: First World War Widows' Pensions Forms
Catalogue reference: PIN 82
What's it about?
PIN 82
This series consists of a random sample of First World War widows' and dependents' pensions forms created by the Ministry of Pensions. Each file contains approximately 50 forms. The forms give personal details of each serviceman's name, place of...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PIN 82
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Pensions: First World War Widows' Pensions Forms
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1910-1932
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of a random sample of First World War widows' and dependents' pensions forms created by the Ministry of Pensions.
Each file contains approximately 50 forms. The forms give personal details of each serviceman's name, place of residence, particulars of service and the date, place and cause of death or injury. The forms also give details of the assessment of, and entitlement to, pensions awards, the amount awarded, and the length of time for which the award is granted. Some forms contain details of awards of mourning grants, and copies of death certificates.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The forms are arranged largely in alphabetical order by name of serviceman. The last file in the series contains forms filed out of sequence. The item numbers have been generated automatically for system reasons and do not appear on the forms.
Covering dates shown in catalogue descriptions for individual items are approximate and based on the date range of the whole file.
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- 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, General Administration Division, 1917-1944
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 183 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Researchers are asked to note that many of the forms in this series are fragile, and care must be exercised when handling them.
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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)
- Series is not accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The forms ultimately passed to the Department of Health and Social Security where the decision (with the agreement of the Public Record Office) to sample the forms was taken, and the remaining forms destroyed. The files in this series are a random sample of less than one twelfth of the estimated 100,000 files that originally existed.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11595/
Catalogue hierarchy
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: PIN
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Ministry of Pensions: First World War Widows' Pensions Forms
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