Edward VII Volunteer Long Service medal

[lawrence_n]

For me if I go and use the public computer in my local library I can access the Ancestry website for free. However I do not believe this to be nationwide across the UK (?) and is obviously going to be different from country to country.

When I researched a distant relative who died in WW1 but joined the T.A. well before WW1 the earliest paperwork in his WW1 service record dated to 1911, when he joined the T.A.. The sad and poignant piece of information on this 1911 dated paperwork for me was the question about the applicant's employment. My relative had written that he was still in education. He had joined the T.A., in 1911, as soon as he was legally allowed to and was still at school/college. He died aged 20.

The good thing about the Ancestry site is that it has access to multiple archives in more than one country.

So many stories, both sad and uplifting, come from those archives. We have my father's service record and that of an uncle who died during WWII (death by "misadventure") in England. I would have liked to have put the medal on my table with a little more information. I would imagine it's not too common, being as Edward VII had such a short reign, and the medal was discontinued in 1908 when it was superseded by a new long service medal.