AIR 83 Records of the Royal Flying Corps and successors, Gallantry Award Medal Index Cards, Licensing, Digitisation and Publishing

The National Archives (TNA) is seeking to select a partner to license, digitise and publish online, AIR 83 Records of the Royal Flying Corps and successors, Gallantry Award Medal Index Cards, 1914-1945. The contract award would include a commercial licence to publish online digital images and associated metadata, and a requirement to undertake all the necessary activities to make that possible, including conservation, digital image capture, use of metadata to allow for meaningful searches of the records, and online publication. This is a series of approximately 12,000 index cards of the gallantry award medals (including rare Mentioned in Despatches) made to individuals during World War One. The cards cover the transitional period from the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) to the Royal Air Force (RAF). The cards contain information such as: Surname, Christian names, Rank, Corps, Regimental number, Mentioned in Despatch, Dates and give details of who approved the award for gallantry.

Please download the AIR 83 Information Sheet (downloadable below) for full details of the medal cards.

• How to apply Download and complete the Application Response Form (downloadable below) then email to: procurement@nationalarchives.gov.uk