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anyone now where you could find out about soldiers who were wounded.

Welcome to the forum.
Only about 1/3 of WW1 soldiers' service records survived the WW2 Blitz. What remains has been put on Ancestry.
What do you know about your man or men? Medals? Badges? Names/ Numbers/ Regiments?
The Long, Long Trail website has lots of useful material and advice.

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s mason born birkenhead 1898. 11354/202583. 13th bat royal welsh fusiliers wounded 1918. any information on his military service. had a brother hambleton mason. kia 1917.

You could try looking in thr local newspaper for Birkenhead. There may be a report

S. Mason: there is a Medal Index Card for this man, with the numbers and regiment you quoted. There are two ways of getting a copy: one is via the National Archives Documents online service, where it will cost you £2 payable by card. The other is via Ancestry, free. You may be able to access Ancestry through a public library. The card will show the campaign medal entitlement, and perhaps a little more, such as any entitlement to a Silver War Badge (for those discharged on medical grounds).
H. Mason: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission's online Debt of Honour Register shows Pte H. Mason died on 16 Aug 1917, he was a private in 8th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He has no known grave but his name is inscribed on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing.

As I said in my earlier reply, any other surviving documents will be available on Ancestry, and the Long, Long Trail website will give you background information and other hints on searching.
D

Samuel's medal card, I hope somebody will be able to advise you what the entries mean.

The medal index card shows the two numbers allocated to the soldier by his regiment.
The lower figures refer to medal rolls which are held at the National Archives, Kew and are not online. These rolls may show which battalion of the RWF this man served in, and probably little else of use or interest.
The soldier will not have served abroad before 1916, as he was not awarded the 1914-15 Star. He earned the Victory and British War Medals.
D

thanks for some great information, any ideas why one was in an irish reg, and the other a welsh, strange since they came from cheshire.

There is nothing unusual in finding men serving in 'strange' regiments. Some volunteered to get in early and took whatever they were given. Some travelled away to enlist, for the fun of it. Others, later in the war, were conscripted and were sent where they were needed.
D

anyone got access to forces war records, seems there is a casualty record for this man in Military Hospital and Admissions. steve

I doubt it, we didn't have a terribly good opinion of the site and believed that most of what could be found on it, at an extra cost, was already available on other sites.

You may well prove us wrong on that point, but can you pinpoint what date and we will take a look in our resources.

around april 1918

Some voucher codes in case you're thinking of taking a subscription.

https://www.vouchercodes.co.uk/forces-war-records.co.uk

Is this him?

11th-June-1918
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Private
Samuel
202583
Mason
Birkenhead
Wounded

In 2010 whe you posted I had not started what was to be a big project for me of indexing the casualty lists. Anyway I completed what was a long hard slog.

I would also suggest you access the local papers, there maybe a mention of him being wounded.

I would estimate he was wounded on or about 5th May 1918

Hambleton Mason was posted as missing in action

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Mason
41935
Hambleton
Private
Birkenhead
16th August 1917
Missing

Yes that is him, trying to establish the nature of his wound and how serious, never got to meet him , passed away before I was born, i know he had his leg amputated,did this have anything to do with his injuries, thanks steve.

got hold of this information admitted to hospital 23/4/1918 IX4 Gunshot wound of the lower extremities, compound fracture, transferred 24/4/1918 from 129th field ambulance, to no 23 ambulance train. steve.

Well done and thanks for updating the post