Medals Found on Nottinghamshire Golf Course

[Davef68]

Originally Posted by Stuart Sutcliffe

The UK national archives search portal has one entry that may be of use:

Reference: BT 395/1/86768
Description: Medal listing of Scott, Arthur James
Discharge number: R280391
Date of Birth: 26 February 1924

The (currently) free downloadable PDF is a single page, obviously from a bigger list, which includes this Arthur James Scott:




The PDF is avaialable here: https://discovery.nationalarchives.g...ils/r/D4364013

I don't know the precise meanings of the various abbreviations, but there appears to be evidence of Atlantic ('AT') and Pacific ('PA') medals there. The full PDF does not explain what the various columns represent, but I see what looks like a date ('Feb 47') and what seems to be 'NZ' under the number '60104'. Is this a service number? Was this Arthur J. Scott a New Zealander, or perhaps emigrated to New Zealand after discharge?
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I'll need to check my grandfather's medals to see if his camw from the Secretary to the Admiralty, he was also a merchant Seaman,

[Davef68]

Originally Posted by MrBernoulli

The UK National Archives reference (found in the link in Stuart Sutcliffe's post) clearly states it is a "Discharge number: R280391". It would be nice to know what the "60104" number really is. .

It's the reference to the file number of the medal papers that were raised for the recipient, which included details of the seaman’s service. I believe these are/were held by the Registry of Shipping and Seamen.

Discharge number is the equivalent of service number

[Davef68]

Originally Posted by Davef68

I'll need to check my grandfather's medals to see if his cmew from the Secretary to the Admiralty, he was also a merchant Seaman,

Checked and the Merchant Navy medals came from the Secretary of State for Trade rather than the Admiralty. Not definitive, but looks like it's not that person.