Medals won by ADRIC recruits in WW1

The numbers of medals awarded in WW1 was enormous, and the number of men fighting was enormous. To get a perspective, there were 275,000 commissioned officers serving during WW1

• 615 VCs were awarded
• 8981 DSOs were awarded
• 31,793 MCs were awarded (with 2,761 first bars, 157 second bars, and 4 third bars).
• 24,573 DCM were awarded
• 117,000 MM were awarded

So one would expect that ex-officers joining the ADRIC would include many with decorations. There are 439 men in the ADRIC with medals in the table below. The figures are roughly what you would expect for a group who had mainly fought part of the war as Officers and part as Enlisted Men. The only notable exception is the relatively low number of DSO, where one would have expected to see about 50 to 70 DSOs - the ADRIC was not attracting ex-senior officers in proportion.

Note also that 81 men had fought in the Boer War

• 427 recipients of medals
• VC - 3
• DSO - 16 men
• DSO and bar - 2 men
• DSO and 3 bars - 1 man
• MC - 211 men
• MC and bar - 17 men
• MC and 2 bars - 3 men
• DCM - 55 men (of whom 3 had 1 bar)
• MM - 71 men (of whom 3 had 1 bar)
• 31 C de G (various)
• QSA - 81 men plus one who fought as a Boer (note, I have used QSA to cover both QSA and KSA)
• Albert Medal - 3 men
• RHS Medal - 3 men
• OBE/MBE - 10 men
• CMG - 1 man
• DSC - 2 men
• DFC - 3 men
• AFC - 2 men

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