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help in deciphering service record.

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PhiloNauticus:
WG = War Gratuity
PWC = Post War Credit

These were Government payments to those who served in the armed forces during the war

I believe the payments were deposited in the Post Office Savings Bank and the bank book sent to the service man.

haryc:
June 1948 to
October 1951.
Carol

haryc:
Why  would the WG and PWC be listed under nature of decoration?
Forgive me if I'm being a bit simple. :)
Carol

PhiloNauticus:
Carol

This is an outline of Vanguard's service:

June – Aug 1948 – at Devonport
Sep – Oct – cruise to Mediterranean; calls at Malta and Gibraltar
Nov – returned Devonport

Jan 1949 - Devonport
3 Feb – sailed for Mediterranean
Feb - Gibraltar
Mar – exercises, western Med
16 – 20 Mar – Algiers
28 Mar – 2 Apr - Naples
Apr - Malta
May – exercises in central Med
18 – 22 May – visit to Venice
May - Malta
15 – 16 Jun – Famagusta, Cyprus
18 Jun – Port Said, Egypt
End-Jun – exercises eastern Med
1 – 4 Jul – Phaleron Bay, Greece
6 – 7 Jul – Tripoli, Libya
16 Jul - Gibraltar
21 Jul – Devonport
Aug – Devonport
Sep – joined Home Fleet Training Squadron
Oct – exercises off Scotland
Nov / Dec – Portland

Jan 1950 – Gibraltar
Feb - Jun – Portland
Jul – exercises off Scotland
20 – 24 Jul – visit to Bangor (N Ireland)
Jul/Aug – Solent for Cowes Week
Sep – to Gibraltar for exercises
Sep/Oct – exercises in western Atlantic; visits to Dakar; Cape Verde; Madeira
Nov – visit to Lisbon
Nov/Dec – Portsmouth

Jan 1951 – to Gibraltar
Feb – exercises in Mediterranean
Mar – Portland
Apr – Jun – exercises off Scotland
Jul – visit: Eastbourne (to coincide with Festival of Britain)
Jul/Aug – Portsmouth
Sep/Oct - Devonport

PhiloNauticus:

--- Quote ---Why  would the WG and PWC be listed under nature of decoration?
--- End quote ---

Short answer: Don't know.  But I would suspect that as the War Gratuity was, in effect, an award of cash for those who had served, that it may have seemed logical to have recorded it under Awards and Decorations.  Although a separate thing, the Post-War Credit seems to have been associated with the Grant, although I think the intention with this, was to compensate for lost wages (i.e. if they hadn't been in the forces, they could have been earning more as a civvy.)

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