My Dad is going to get a medal

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Around 40 years after the event, HM Government has decided that Malaya was in fact a campaign and not perhaps an exotic holiday with unusually dangerous firework parties.

So, he's going to the Royal Armouries in Leeds later on this month with around 400 other veterans and he's going to get his medal at last.

Funny how governments take no time at all to do the wrong thing, but 40 years to do the right.
 
Fantastic news, it's about time those poor ******** who served in Malaya got some recognition!

:)
 
Stolly said:
Around 40 years after the event, HM Government has decided that Malaya was in fact a campaign and not perhaps an exotic holiday with unusually dangerous firework parties.

So, he's going to the Royal Armouries in Leeds later on this month with around 400 other veterans and he's going to get his medal at last.

Funny how governments take no time at all to do the wrong thing, but 40 years to do the right.
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congrats to your dad mate...be proud of him.
 
Slinwagh said:
Who did he serve with ?
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Royal Artillery, his was mainly an AA battery but since their actual job was to defend bridges against anything that may happen they were trained in infantry tactics as well, hence their being sent there to chase shadows in the jungle.

He was at Aden as well, in fact he was manning the last checkpoint into Crater when all that stuff happened, if you know the period.
 
My grandad was in the army doing something in Malaya, although i'm not sure what. This was around ...39 years ago ( all i know is that my mum was born in malaya whilst he was there )

Could this be the same campaign?


And. About time! :)
 
Cr0fty said:
My grandad was in the army doing something in Malaya, although i'm not sure what. This was around ...39 years ago ( all i know is that my mum was born in malaya whilst he was there )

Could this be the same campaign?


And. About time! :)
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My grandfather was also over there, im sure about the same time. He's quite a young bamp considering im 20, so he'd have been about 23 or so at the time.

Congratulations to your dad for finally getting a medal for his service!
 
Stolly said:
He was at Aden as well, in fact he was manning the last checkpoint into Crater when all that stuff happened, if you know the period.
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My father also served in Aden, was an RAF provost officer working with the regiment, army and marines on joint force work there.

He recieved medals for his service there during the nasty times - I recall stories from him about how nailbombs were rolled into schools, people attempted to smuggle explosives into public areas in their pants, razor wires strung across regularly car-patrolled-streets in attempt to decapitate soldiers, suicide bombings...

Aden and Yemen works are some of the most unpublicised miltary operations I think... either that or because it's been a while the stories have faded away.

I hope they never do and live on in the words of sons, family and friends like me.
 
Cr0fty said:
My grandad was in the army doing something in Malaya, although i'm not sure what. This was around ...39 years ago ( all i know is that my mum was born in malaya whilst he was there )

Could this be the same campaign?


And. About time! :)
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Almost certainly, it went on for over 10 years IIRC.
 
trickyj said:
My father also served in Aden, was an RAF provost officer working with the regiment, army and marines on joint force work there.

He recieved medals for his service there during the nasty times - I recall stories from him about how nailbombs were rolled into schools, people attempted to smuggle explosives into public areas in their pants, razor wires strung across regularly car-patrolled-streets in attempt to decapitate soldiers, suicide bombings...

Aden and Yemen works are some of the most unpublicised miltary operations I think... either that or because it's been a while the stories have faded away.

I hope they never do and live on in the words of sons, family and friends like me.
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Dad tells me how we ran and paid for their hospitals, and that one of the most common complaints was a long burn down womens legs. Coincidently, often when they took fire from a window when they burst into the room to find it thick with smoke, they were confronted by a smiling man and a very uncomfortable looking woman. They were forbidden from searching the women to find out what was under their burqas lest the Daily Mirror and their friends get hold of a story about the British oppressors violating the peace loving womanfolk of the poor downtrodden locals.....
 
Knowing this government, the medal will probably say "To [insert name here], in recognition of his contribution during an exotic holiday with unusually dangerous firework parties". :rolleyes:
 
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