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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 16:48 |
A Burma Star belonging to a relative. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 15 Aug 2015 18:43 |
I haven't yet watched our recording of today's events, but caught a short snippet on the news. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 15 Aug 2015 20:39 |
you're right Sharon - a lady was wearing her father's medals - he died last month in his nineties |
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LaGooner | Report | 15 Aug 2015 20:50 |
One of our relatives has his Dad's medals. They are professionally mounted and framed. |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:04 |
They didn't seem to make much of their own medals did they? |
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LaGooner | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:07 |
Unfortunately his were awarded after his death on the Burma Railway whilst a POW. My Dad did not get any medals as he was in the AFS during the Blitz. But if he had I would have loved to get the framed and hung as a memory of his service. |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:26 |
Are you sure he was not entitled to anything? |
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LaGooner | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:30 |
If he was, my so called Mother would have had them so they were either given to my so called perfect sister or else she got rid of them after he passed away. |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:33 |
I am sure you could get copies if they were important to you but you will your own ways, as we all do, to keep your good memories. |
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LaGooner | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:38 |
Maybe I could Sharron, I may well look into that. I will always hold his memory with me he was such a lovely kind man, I will never understand why he stayed with the Evil one. :-(. He spent as much time away from her as he could, that I do remember. |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 22:00 |
I think it was because there was a stigma to divorce in those days and,almost without exception,custody of the children was awarded to the mother. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 15 Aug 2015 22:33 |
My aunt-by-marriage burnt my grandfather's WW1 medals, photographs, documents, etc etc after her husband died in 1991 .......... she never asked me or my nieces whether they wanted them. Just got rid of everything to dot with THAT family :-( |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 22:47 |
My grandfather was sent a white feather. |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 22:47 |
My grandfather was sent a white feather. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 15 Aug 2015 22:49 |
I think anyone who refused to go to war was incredibly brave to stand by their principles |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 15 Aug 2015 22:54 |
Sharron ............... |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 22:55 |
They were indeed but he didn't refuse, he could not be spared. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 15 Aug 2015 23:52 |
My late Dad got the Burma Star, he had four medals in total and after he died Mum gave two to my nephew and two to my son but what annoyed me was she let my nephew pick his two first. I don't know which ones my son has as they are packed away somewhere, but to let 7 yr olds choose seemed a bit silly. |
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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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Sharron | Report | 16 Aug 2015 14:45 |
It is a shame that we have them but very little opportunity to show them off. |