Help with a medal card

[browntoa]

I've worked out the medals etc on the card and the clasp bit at the bottom of the list but can anyone shed light on what the bit to the right of the Roll page means ??

looks like (A) Sect "B" A,R 18.1.21 ??

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff30/browntoa/medalcard.jpg


and also on the right bottom whwere it says clasp/1/3408 ??

thank you in advance for any assistance

trying to sort out as much groundwork as I can before a trip down to Kew

[Terry Reeves]

It appears to refer to Section B of the Army Reserve. This was a soldier who had completed his regular army service and was serving his normal reserve commitment. At a guess, he had previously served 5 years and then was called up for war service as he had a seven year reserve commitment. The date is probably that of which the latter expired.

The annotation to the right of clasp is an internal departmental reference of which there are there are no longer any records.

Terry Reeves

[browntoa]

he would have been about 18-19 in 1914, he was born in 1896

wonder if he was a boy cadet or something ??

he was still a soldier in 1920 when he got married

confusing thing is I thought he suffered lung damage through gassing, he always suffered from ill health and died in 1946, so I thought he would have been medically retired but can find no pension record

[Terry Reeves]

In which case he may well have joined the regular army in 1914 for seven years and then served five years on the reserve, which would match the dates.

Terry Reeves