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DOD/2013/7
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Medals for Engraving 1947-1994 Part 1
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File contains handwritten and typed correspondence (originals and copies) generated by the Department of Defence (Finance Branch/F3) in the case of forwarding list of names or mainly a single name and the associated number to be engraved by Department of Post and Telegraphs Factory at St Johns Road, Dublin on medals to be issued posthumously to qualifying veterans of the period 1916 to 1921. The medals are The 1916 Medal, the Service (1917-1921) Medal with Bar and the Service (1917-1921) Medal without Bar. Only medals awarded posthumously are engraved. (However, a note to be found inside the file cover of this file records “1916 Medals are not normally engraved when being issued to surviving applicants. However, two medals issued recently have been engraved----the present engraving is done in order to make the medals more presentable for issue” 1p dated 4 October 1983). A different series of numbers is assigned to each medal or category of medal. The first number assigned on this file to the Service (1917-1921) Medal without Bar is 446. In the case of the Service Medal with Bar the first number assigned is 977 and in the case of The 1916 Medal it is 372. Thereafter the numbering runs sequentially for each medal type as issued, although there are some few errors in the sequence which are later corrected and noted on file.
File includes carbon copies of delivery form AF 289A (B)-used by the Controller, Department of Post & Telegraphs, St Johns Road, Dublin, copy form MP1028-List of Registered Postal Packets- and copy form CS 152 from Controller of Stores recording delivery of quantities of medals, and/or ribbon and clasps “ requisitioned” by Defence ( under contract to supply). Correspondence includes internal Finance Branch memorandum dated 8 September 1982 drawing attention to the fact that four medals without bar (no’s 1246 to 1249) also erroneously included the engraving of the years 1917-1921. These four medals were withdrawn and a system involving notifying the number and name to be engraved within a circle representing the diameter of the medal was introduced.
File also contains copy receipts, some notes on enquiries as to apparent delay in returning engraved medals, registered postal envelopes or portion of same with An Roinn Cosanta (Department of Defence), Colaiste Caoimhin, Glasnevin address from the Department of Post and Telegraphs commencing on 15 August 1977. Later receipts and material on file reflects the fact that engraving of medals became the responsibility of Group 111(3) Stores, Army Ordnance Corps, Clancy Barracks, Dublin 8, with the first such medal engraved at Clancy Barracks being returned to the Department (Medals Section A3c (B)) through internal mail delivery system on 21 November 1985.
An associated file within the cover: MD/1 Misc File. Engraved Medals –Payment to Telecom Eireann contains letter from Controller of Stores, Telecom Eireann dated 19 August 1985 seeking payment for the engraving of 17 Service Medals during the year 1984 at a total cost of £58.99. Subsequent minutes and notes on file indicate that a total of 21 medals were engraved by An Bord Telecom in 1984, that engraving of the Service Medal for issue to members of the Permanent Defence Forces was ongoing in Clancy Barracks and that Commandant Jim Carley, the then Officer in Charge at Group 111 Stores, Clancy Barracks was in a position to engrave service medals as required by the Department of Defence. Payment to An Bord Telecom is effected for the 1984 account and two medals (which had been returned to the Department of Defence) are forwarded to Comdt Carley as samples of requirement for future engraving work to be carried out at Clancy Barracks. (18pp dated 20 September 1985 to 22 October 1985).
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