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Ministry of Pensions and successors: Second World War Pensions Award Files of Far...
Catalogue reference: PIN 91
What's it about?
PIN 91
This series comprises Ministry of Pensions and its successors case files of war disability pension awards where pensionable service was in the Far East during the Second World War.Files contain medical records, accounts of how and where...
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 91
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Pensions and successors: Second World War Pensions Award Files of Far Eastern Prisoners of War
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Date (When the record was created)
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1915-1989
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises Ministry of Pensions and its successors case files of war disability pension awards where pensionable service was in the Far East during the Second World War.
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, marital and parental status.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
This series is arranged by service, rank and alphabetical order by surname
- Abbreviations used in this series 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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170 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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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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All files relating to Far Eastern prisoners of war have been selected for permanent preservation either in this series or in the two per cent general sample of Second World War pensions award files in PIN 80
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11604/
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