Hi glad I found this site it's great - I've been browsing for a while but thought I'd better introduce myself at last.
I'm Mick Smith and along with my wife we have started to investigate our family tree. We didn't realise how much we didn't know until we started.
Hence joining this BG-forum. I've recently become very interested in my father's war record and have had some success in tracking down his service records. This was very lucky as apparently most of them were destroyed in 1940. I now know the regiment he served in and the medals he was awarded.

His name is L./C. Samuel Smith, Lond. Regt. 592699 (frmly.5278) and he was awarded the military medal. He joined the army in 1911 in the Middlesex Regt and his number was 6559. I'm now trying to find out why he was awarded the MM. So far no luck but we are going down to the National archive at Kew this Saturday - any tips anyone

regards
mick smith