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magpie | Report | 20 Aug 2015 16:46 |
I've read that they were issued to next of kin and came automatically soon after the telegram. They were issued for every fatality of the Great War throughout the Empire, there were some issued for women too, Edith Cavell? probably! |
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Sharron | Report | 20 Aug 2015 15:52 |
I remember there being one at home once but I don't know if it is still here. |
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magpie | Report | 20 Aug 2015 14:08 |
Has anyone on here got a 'Dead Man's Penny'? These were issued to the family's of men killed in WW1. My OH has the one issued to commemorate his grandfather who was killed in France in the closing days of the war in October 1918 |
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magpie | Report | 19 Aug 2015 09:06 |
I suggest you read up about the attitude to Bomber Command, post WW2, both by successive governments and the public at large right up to the last ten or so years, when, after years of campaigning those brave young men finally got the recognition they deserved, sadly about 50 years too late as most of them and their spouses were now dead. But there we are, better late than never.. It's all there on Google. You will then be better informed in your comments. |
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Denis | Report | 19 Aug 2015 06:51 |
"My son will inherit this small, and as he put it, dismal award, with the pride we feel it deserves." |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 19 Aug 2015 02:03 |
Magpie, I think my greatgrandfather was in the Ox and Bucks , he came back with shrapnel lodged in his head which caused constant headaches. He died in agony when the shrapnel moved, he was only 60. I never knew him, sadly |
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Denburybob | Report | 18 Aug 2015 19:58 |
I have my maternal G.Father's medals, he was wounded on the Somme, but patched up and sent back to the trenches. He was in the London Rifles. He lived to be 87. I also have my father's medals from WW11, and I intend to frame them all, along with mine, and probably hand them down to my grandson. My cousin has also kindly given me her father's WW11 medals, as I appear to have become the family archivist. |
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magpie | Report | 18 Aug 2015 18:48 |
Bomber Command was shunned at the end of the war because of Dresden. Churchill failed to mention their contribution to the war or made any mention of them in his victory speech. There was no particular medal for any of them, only a campaign medal which everyone got. No memorial for them till 2012. Survivors simply could believe at the way they were treated. In the 1970's they were known as murder boys and their wicked deeds were discussed in this vein in the media to the very acute distress of my mother and the fury of me. The ribbon I refer to is ' the recognition' that was finally awarded to the surviving families of those brave young men, most of them and their spouses are now dead, so the award went to surviving offspring, grandchildren etc. It's better than nothing, but not particularly inspiring. Your right, my mother didn't apply for the campaign medal after the war, she was a widow with a two year old, things were very difficult for us and many like us, and I guess had more important things like survival on her mind |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 18 Aug 2015 16:02 |
According to my mother you had to claim your medals at the end of WW2 and she didn't. Magpie your mother should have claimed them, perhaps she didn't realise she could get them. Your father would not have been treated differently to all others serving during the war because he was Bomber Command. |
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Denis | Report | 18 Aug 2015 15:39 |
Magpie - I'm not sure what you mean by a ribbon. Who has your father's medals, or were they not claimed? |
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magpie | Report | 18 Aug 2015 14:23 |
My Grandfather served in the Ox and Bucks in WW1 from 1915-1919. He too was mildly gassed and suffered from shell shock. His medals went to his son (my uncle) who served in WW2 in the Northumberland Fuisiliers and was among the first landing at D-day, having been seconded to another regiment. These two lots of medals are with uncles son, my cousin. Another maternal cousin was killed in North Africa, his medals went?! What an awful business it all was. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 18 Aug 2015 14:04 |
Before he died my Dad made two albums of photos - one of his pre-war naval days and the other of war-time naval photos. He had three grandsons so two of them got the albums and one got his medals - just as Dad had planned. Grandson who carried the surname on got the medals, eldest grandson got first choice of albums. |
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magpie | Report | 18 Aug 2015 12:35 |
My stepfather was a POW in the Far East, and he had the Burma Star. After he died I gave all his medals to my son, who has enormous pride in them. They will eventually be handed down to my grandson, who will, we hope, feel the same pride. |
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LaGooner | Report | 17 Aug 2015 19:00 |
Thank you for that Denis and I apologise for late reply. |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 17 Aug 2015 17:05 |
My mother as ATS during WW2 could have had medals but never claimed them. She was trained to be an electrician by the army to rewire damaged tanks. Dad was busy making Spitfires. |
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Denis | Report | 17 Aug 2015 09:34 |
LaGooner -if you father was in the AFS then he was almost certainly entitled to the Defence Medal. However, WW2 medals had to be claimed so perhaps he didn't bother? It would still be available now if you wanted to claim it. |
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Sharron | Report | 16 Aug 2015 15:11 |
To so many I think it was a case of doing it because it was there needing to be done. |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 16 Aug 2015 14:59 |
I have great admiration for my fil who died a few years ago. He refused to accept his medals. As a patriot he was prepared to fight for his country and do what had to be done but he wasn't prepared to find any glory in it. |
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Sharron | Report | 16 Aug 2015 14:45 |
It is a shame that we have them but very little opportunity to show them off. |
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Tawny | Report | 16 Aug 2015 11:17 |
My grandfather was officially stationed in Ceylon and India with the 19th Daggers. He was awarded a Burma Star. My father has all his dad's medals. |
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