Update on PT6 Scottish First World War pension appeals records

An update on a collection that I first blogged about in 2012, the PT6 records featuring First World War Pension Apeals Tribunals, as held by the National Records of Scotland (www.nrscotland.gov.uk).

Last week, via the ScotlandsPeople Facebook page, Scottish Indexes asked about the progress of efforts to catalogue this important collection, something that was first announced in 2021 (see https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2021/01/pt6-scottish-pensions-appeal-records.html). This was the NRS's response:

"The Pension Appeal Tribunal records (ref. PT6) were catalogued as a result of funding by the Wellcome Trust. This project didn’t quite complete cataloguing the whole collection, but work is currently underway to address this shortfall. Work to capture digital images was not included in the Wellcome Trust project, but imaging work is currently in progress. Discussions will soon be taking place regarding the potential for online release, though no decisions or timescales have yet been agreed."

I'm sure they'll get there in the end!

For more on the collection, read the guest contribuiton to my blog from reader Tunji Lees, as first published in January 2012 - http://britishgenes.blogspot.com/2012/01/guest-post-scottish-ww1-pensions-appeal.html. The following is Tunji's summary of what is available within each record:

General information
-Name of the soldier (+ name of the applicant, and relationship to soldier, if not the same)
-His address
-Age
-Pre-enlisting occupation
-Employer before the war (on later applications only)
-Employer after the war (on later applications only)
-Insurance society (on later applications only)

Military information
-Rank & unit
-Service no
-When first attested
-When discharged
-Reason for discharge
-Details on pre-war service (if applicable)
-Details on service 1914-1921 (when and where he served, and in what units)

Information on application
-Date of the hearing and in which courtroom it was held (the hearings were held at 3 Parliament Square, Edinburgh)
-Disability from which the man claimed to be suffering
-Whether the appeal was allowed or disallowed (many were in fact disallowed)
-If allowed, how much the applicant received, and whether he got a lump sum or a fixed rate, and for how long

Each file also has some information on the soldier's medical history.

Chris 

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