Diamond Jubilee Medal

[happy daze john in oz]

The historians have the shipowners down as Bristol and Liverpool slavers anyway so expect they will show seafarers as drunken men ripping young Africans from their homes , and trading them to the Americas , not only do the academics find us an embarrassment , they will want us to apologise to all the Africans we disrupted the lives of . Feeding the populace in two World Wars , Supporting the Army and Navy in Freeing the Falklands , Building the British Empire , it will all be airbrushed away . We should apologise now to the displaced Afro Americans whose lives we ruined , We should Apologise to the environmentalists whose lands we have polluted with our bilges and spills , Maybe we should load up one last Tramp Ship with Politicians and Historians , sell them off on the african coast and see if we can get our trinkets back

Trinkets, listen mate as far as some of those countries are concerned the politicians are trinkets, trinkets no one wants.

[happy daze john in oz]

i cannot believe that sports people and TV stars were not included

No Alf but here in Oz they get to march in the gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

[happy daze john in oz]

#3... Does that include the 600 or so politicians and all their secretaries and friends. What a load of Codswallop. Wasnt so long back they were pushing for a medal just to the fact they were politicians. JS

I have heard it was proposed that a Lead one be made for them, but the wording was not to their liking, 'Crap on top of crap served with more crap' displeased some of them.

[ray-c]

No Alf but here in Oz they get to march in the gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

If what the papers are saying is true, that could happen here as well.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Recognise the Merchant Navy by issuing past and present seafarers of this country a Diamond Jubilee medal:

Petition by
Geoffrey Johnson
THORNGUMBALD, United Kingdom
Petitioning Graham Stuart MP
The Diamond Jubilee Medal was issued to the Armed Forces, and Key support services. The Merchant Navy was omitted, the Prison Service, Fire Brigade, Police Force, Cadet Force Supervisors, Ambulance Service, Rescue services and BANKERS.
It has taken 70 years to get the Merchant Navy the Russian Convoy Medal, will it be 70 years before we are recognised again?The only medal issued since WW2 was the Falklands and how many lives did it cost the Merchant Navy.

To:

Graham Stuart MP, My constituency MP
Prime Minister David Cameron, 10 Downing Street, LONDON
Recognise the Merchant Navy by issuing past and present seafarers of this country a Diamond Jubilee medal.

LINK: http://www.change.org/petitions/grah...share_petition

Geoff has over 700 signatures so far, let’s see if we can add another 700, pass this on to your contacts.

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[Keith at Tregenna]

We have now almost 950 signed.. I will carry on this fight for as long as it takes. But I need YOUR SUPPORT Please share the info in this petition to others .. I Thank You whole heartedly. I can say 100% It is not so much the medal.. BUT RESPECT We Deserve. Thanks for your support. Geoffrey Johnson

[robpage]

Just so I get it clearly in my mind , the lads in the RFA already have this , so m I assuming that the only other recipients would be people serving at the date and having have completed five full calendar years of service on 6 February 2012 , because If so I wondered how many people were actually serving members of the British Merchant Navy , sailing on British Ships at the time , because I believe there are less than 150 ships and around twenty of those with around 2000 men are already covered by the RFA . I think those guys deserve every recognition , when the PCSOs get a medal , I think MN service is as meritorious , if not more so , but wondered how many we are actually talking about .

[Keith at Tregenna]

My vote was for: Recognise the Merchant Navy by issuing past and present seafarers of this country a Diamond Jubilee medal: K

"It is not so much the medal.. BUT RESPECT We Deserve".





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[robpage]

I totally and absolutely agree with the sentiment Keith , but I would believe as there was a five year previous , service to the date applied to the Armed Services , Civil Services etc , I believe there will be a tough fight without result as to apply it retrospectively it would have to be applied to all the ex soldiers , RN Sailors , airmen , Police , Fire Service , Ambulance , and that would be a lot of people , some were only short term ie five years . I wish the petitioner all the best ,and will of course sign , but feel the task will be drowned at birth because of the retrospective application to everyone else . Best Wishes to all who try though

[j.sabourn]

Keith, As there seems to be some discrepancy re. Rules of receiving this Jubilee Medal re. MN Service, do you have an Email address for applications for same. To clear this matter up, whilst not being a member of the RFA, who are as far as I am aware are ordinary merchant seamen in any case, would like to apply for to see how far can get with the facts that I served with Naval Party 1007 from 26.10.78 to 4.8.82. Although under the 5 years stated, I also did time with conversions of vessels to armed patrol boats for the Falklands, that is taken out on trials etc. Would be interesting to see what sort of answer would get, if it was possible to make application for same. Cheers John S.