Ireland's Military Archives updates Military Service Pensions Collection

From Ireland's Military Archives (www.militaryarchives.ie), news of the latest update to its Military Service Pensions Collection:

May 2021 Release

The May 2021 release is the tenth release of records from the Military Service (1916-1923) Pensions Collection (MSPC). The files relate to claims lodged by 1,120 individuals/veterans or by their dependants and contain new information on the War of Independence and the Civil War. This release contains over 2,500 new files and brings the total of fully digitised files relating to individual claims to 34,500, representing over 11,840 individual entries on the MSPC database.

Taking into account all MSPC file series, approximately 104,000 files have now been catalogued and available for viewing either online or in the Military Archives reading room (in the case of the Medals series).

The files released include:

- 869 claims lodged by women
- 64 individuals from Northern Ireland (41 women)
- 15 wound pensions awarded
- 237 successful claims (service/wounds, etc.)
- 9 successful claims under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1924 (National Army veterans)
- 152 successful claims under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1934

View the full list of files released on this occasion: HERE 

To search the records visit https://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/military-service-pensions-collection-1916-1923

(Source: https://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/military-service-pensions-collection-1916-1923/release-history/may-2021-release @mspcblog)

Chris

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