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burgess720 WOI

Number of posts : 147 Registration date : 2008-07-09
 | Subject: National Defence Medal 29/7/2008, 05:25 | |
| Hi all,
There is currently a campaign for a National Defence Medal; anyone interested can sign the petition go to: http:nationaldefencemedal.webs.com
This covers 5 years or more service during the reign of the Queen.
I would not qualify as I joined just before King George VI died.
There is still not an official medal for National Service, which is a shame.
Not even those of us who served in BAOR or especially those in Berlin during the airlift.
Our squadron in Osnabruck, in the event of a Russian attack had to go to Hamburg to blow up bridges. We had further to go than the Russians, and would not have made it, and ended up in Siberia!!! [If we survived!!]
One night I was on office duty and woke up to flashes of Summer lightening in the east; it took me a few minutes to "wake up"; a bit scary.
We were lucky. it never happened.
Regards Tony | |
|  | | burgess720 WOI

Number of posts : 147 Registration date : 2008-07-09
 | Subject: Re: National Defence Medal 29/7/2008, 06:58 | |
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|  | | dave194 Private

Number of posts : 3 Cap Badge : R.E> Registration date : 2008-06-11
 | Subject: Re: National Defence Medal 29/7/2008, 22:50 | |
| Pity about the criteria for the Goden Jubilee Medal. I left in after 22 years on 24 January 2002 so 2 weeks short of qualifying. Think they might make an exeption? I doubt it! | |
|  | | jim Let Gen


Number of posts : 1291 Localisation : Sutton Coldfield Cap Badge : RAOC Places Served : Dad, Hamburg, Bad Oeynhausen, Iserlohn, Bury, Osnabruck, Worcester. Me Detmold, Bielefeld, NI, HK Registration date : 2008-01-03
 | Subject: Re: National Defence Medal 31/7/2008, 10:39 | |
| Sadly, It probably won't happen anyway. I haven's seen one petition to this government that has been acknowledged or acted on. | |
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