Missing medals

[Riskman]

I picked this message up from a Facebook group that I am a member of. If anyone can help I'm sure it would be appreciated.

"Hi. I work in a charity shop in Spain and we received some donated clothing which had two medals in the pocket. They were for Cpl P A Bennington service number T1347156. It would be nice to trace his family so we can reunite them with the medals. One is his LSGM and the other a Saudi campaign medal. Please help if you can."

As a side issue, can anyone shed light on when this person might have enlisted?

Thanks

[NutLoose]

I have had a look but no joy, others no doubt are as well, do not give up on this.

[212man]

Saudi campaign medal

What is this?

[2Planks]

Don't know where the shop is in Spain, or even if it's an RAF Service Number but there are 3 very active branches of RAFA on the Costa Blanca who may be able to help.

[Old-Duffer]

TankerTrashNav's the man for this.

Old Duffer

[Sloppy Link]

Originally Posted by 2Planks

Don't know where the shop is in Spain, or even if it's an RAF Service Number but there are 3 very active branches of RAFA on the Costa Blanca who may be able to help.

LSGC would denote Service, having a letter rules out Army so only RAF remains. RM had two letters prefix up to the 8 number, all ranks, tri-service system now employed. Regards the Saudi Campaign Medal, that needs clarifying, neither Granby or Telic medals have Saudi on them, GSM 1918 has a clasp Arabian Peninsular, GSM 1962 South Arabia and GSM 2008 has Arabian Peninsular again. More info required but if nothing else, pop them in the post to;

MoD Medals Office,
Room G36
Innsworth House
Imjin Bks
Gloucester
Glos
GL3 1HW

[Tashengurt]

Does "Saudi campaign medal" mean the spangly thing they gave out after GW1?

[Speedywheels]

https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/rfc_raf.pdf

If I’m understanding this correctly, according to this site, Cpl Bennington would have joined the RAF in 1941.

[Sloppy Link]

Originally Posted by Tashengurt

Does "Saudi campaign medal" mean the spangly thing they gave out after GW1?

Maybe but that would normally be accompanied by the Kuwait medal.

[NutLoose]

That does not mean they could have become separated though.

[Sloppy Link]

Originally Posted by NutLoose

That does not mean they could have become separated though.

Yep, hence the “normally”…

[ian16th]

Originally Posted by Speedywheels

https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/rfc_raf.pdf

If I’m understanding this correctly, according to this site, Cpl Bennington would have joined the RAF in 1941.

The alpha 'T' check character says that he was serving in 1965 when the check character was invented.

[radar101]

The alpha 'T' check character says that he was serving in 1965 when the check character was invented.

If he joined in 1941 ish then his LSGC would have been 1959 with the bar in 1977?
Has the "Saudi Medal" got his details on - could the 2 medals be from separate people and just part of a small collection?

[Army Mover]

That could be an Army "RASC" number. The Army did not normally use a prefix for a Service number, but the Royal Army Service Corps was an exception. RASC numbers were prefixed S (Supplies), T (Transport), M (Mechanical Transport) or R (Remounts).