I can't read one word on a medal card!

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

On Ancestry there is a WW1 medal card for Leonard Harrison Whelan, alias Duncan Fraser.

On the reverse I can read point 1) but there's a word I can't get in point 2)

Further letter from Lieut S P Whelan in respect of the ??????? of his late Brother, Capt L H Whelan 8.12.18 (alias Duncan Fraser)

Any ideas please?

[Elaine ..Spain]

services ??

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

and can anyone mage sense of the second address?

The Gables
Poligate????????????
Sussex

[Elaine ..Spain]

Polegate ??
(north of Eastbourne on map!)

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

services ??

Oooh, It could be! I thought it looked like "remains", but that wouldn't make any sense as there were none.

I may actually have a copy of the letter, so I should be looking for that really, shouldn't I?!! lol

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Polegate ??
(north of Eastbourne on map!)

Oh well done! (I've never heard of it!) That might be a real breakthrough!!

Thanks Elaine.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Oops, just seen something else!

On the front, what's the first rank (I'm not good with army stuff!)

L/Cpl??

Something corporal?

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Oh, it's Lance isn't it!! lol

[Elaine ..Spain]

I've never heard of it!

I hadn't either Merry!
I just put Poligate into Multimap and up jumps Polegate!

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Poligate sounds like a denture fixative!

[Jill on the A272]

They use a lot of denture fixative in Polegate, you can't move for people on mobility scooters. (We go to Polegate station sometimes to start walks in Sussex)

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

lol Jill!!!

Could you look out for "The Gables"!? I see it's the name of numerous Old Peoples Homes in East Sussex!

[Jill on the A272]

I'll take a look next time I go that way, later this summer.

[Little Nell]

Polegate
was my first thought (I'm a southerner!) but I was surprised to find it doesn't even get its own page in Genuki!

It used to be in Hailsham registration district.

And I remember going through the station on my way to Eastbourne - there were quite a few little village stations on the line, with level crossings.

[Jill on the A272]

There were lots of Aussies there during WW1, they renamed the pub near the station The Dinkum in their honour. Only 4 places of worship so if I can't see The Gables at least I won't return empty handed.

[Jill on the A272]

Just seen this lady's website, she runs a business but as a founder member of Polegate & Willingdon Local History Society she gives a couple of email addresses that might help locate The Gables

Maureens Choice

[Uncle John]

Oooh, It could be! I thought it looked like "remains", but that wouldn't make any sense as there were none.

I may actually have a copy of the letter, so I should be looking for that really, shouldn't I?!! lol

How about "ribands"? On my one that's what it says mummy wrote asking for, for her late son.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

How about "ribands"? On my one that's what it says mummy wrote asking for, for her late son.

I suppose it could be UJ, but I don't think Leonard Whelan would have been entitled to much in the way of ribands .....

He's a major player in my article:

Caroline's Family History Pages - Happy Days

*blatant plug*

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Thanks for your posts, Jill

Last time I contacted a family history society about a house, the person I emailed was living in the house I wanted to know about!!!